Human Anatomy: Reactions of first year medical students to the dissection room;Anatomía Humana: Estudio de las reacciones de los estudiantes de primero de medicina ante la sala de disección

Educacion Medica

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-113

  Miguel Pérez, Maribel ^a   Porta Riba, Nuria ^a   Ortiz Sagristà, Juan Carlos ^b   Martinez, Ana ^a   Götzens García, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b FUNDACIÓ PUIGVERT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Coping methods; Dissection room; human anatomy; Reactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349039932     PISSN: 15751813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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