Curriculum factors influencing knowledge of communication skills among medical students

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Baerheim, Anders ^a   Hjortdahl, Per ^b   Holen, Are ^c   Anvik, Tor ^d   Fasmer, Ole Bernt ^a   Grimstad, Hilde ^c   Gude, Tore ^b   Risberg, Terje ^d   Vaglum, Per ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURSE EVALUATION; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT GUIDANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING; ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 36348963614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-7-35     Document Type: Article

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