Medical student teaching in the UK: How well are newly qualified doctors prepared for their role caring for patients with cancer in hospital?

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 472-478

  Cave, J ^a   Woolf, K ^a   Dacre, J ^a   Potts, H W W ^a   Jones, A ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication skills; Medical education; Oncology; Palliative care; Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKILL; TEACHING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 34547917190     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6603888     Document Type: Article

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