Exploring barriers to teaching behavioural and social sciences in medical education

Medical Education

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-314

  Litva, Andrea ^a   Peters, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

*attitude; Behavioural sciences; Curriculum; Social sciences; Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COURSE CONTENT; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; SOCIOLOGY; TEACHING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEACHING;

EID: 38949202303     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2007.02951.x     Document Type: Article

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