Student body diversity: Relationship to medical students' experiences and attitudes

Academic Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Guiton, Gretchen ^a   Chang, Mitchell J ^b   Wilkerson, LuAnn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIETY; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

EID: 34748883084     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31813ffe1e     Document Type: Article

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