Refugees and medical student training: Results of a programme in primary care

Medical Education

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 697-703

  Griswold, Kim ^a,d   Kernan, Joan B ^a   Servoss, Timothy J ^a   Saad, Frances G ^a,b   Wagner, Christine M ^a   Zayas, Luis E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

*cultural diversity; *education, medical, undergraduate; *refugees; Physician patient relations; Primary health care; Professional competence; Students, psychology *psychology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REFUGEE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REFUGEES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748527515     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02514.x     Document Type: Article

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