Do patients' comfort levels and attitudes regarding medical student involvement vary across specialties?

Medical Teacher

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-54

  Passaperuma, Kavitha ^a   Higgins, Jennife ^a   Power, Stephanie ^a   Taylor, Tamsen ^b  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; OBSTETRICS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDIATRICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; UROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSTETRICS; ONTARIO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDIATRICS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SURGERY; UROLOGY;

EID: 39449129824     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590701753443     Document Type: Article

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