What should students learn about complementary and alternative medicine?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 934-938

  Gaster, Barak ^a,d   Unterborn, John N ^b   Scott, Richard B ^c   Schneeweiss, Ronald ^a  

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

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

EID: 34748893620     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318149eb56     Document Type: Review

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