Viewpoint: Improving the health of the public requires changes in medical education

Academic Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1089-1093

  Solyom, Antal E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORALITY; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONALISM; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL STATUS;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MORALS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

EID: 33644841903     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200512000-00004     Document Type: Review

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