Third and fourth year medical students' attitudes about and experiences with callousness: The good, the bad and the ambiguous

Medical Teacher

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 358-364

  Rentmeester, Christy A ^a   Brack, Amy Badura ^b   Kavan, Michael G ^a  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICISM; ETHICS; FACULTY STUDENT RELATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROFESSIONALISM; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTORS; SEX FACTORS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 34548598538     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590701418799     Document Type: Article

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