'When I first came here, I thought medicine was black and white': Making sense of medical students' ways of knowing

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1084-1096

  Knight, Lynn Valerie ^a   Mattick, Karen ^a  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epistemology; Evidence based medicine; Medical training; Professional knowledge; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICINE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TRAINING;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTEMOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRAINING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; ENGLAND; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33745216457     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.01.017     Document Type: Article

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