Communication skills training: Describing a new conceptual model

Academic Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 37-44

  Brown, Richard F ^a   Bylund, Carma L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 37649000470     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31815c631e     Document Type: Article

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