Teaching medical students about communicating with patients with major mental illness

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1112-1115

  Iezzoni, Lisa I ^a   Ramanan, Radhika A ^b   Lee, Stacey ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication skills; Medical education; Mental illness

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; COMMUNICATION SKILL; FEAR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; TEACHING; TRAINING;

COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 33748346216     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00521.x     Document Type: Review

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