Effect of a global longitudinal pathway on medical students' attitudes toward the medically indigent

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 226-232

  Godkin, Michael A ^a   Savageau, Judith A ^a   Fletcher, Kenneth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MIGRATION; PATIENT; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; POVERTY; SOCIAL WELFARE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TRAVEL;

EID: 33746824568     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328015tlm1803_7     Document Type: Article

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