Medical Students for Choice's Reproductive Health Externships: impact on medical students' knowledge, attitudes and intention to provide abortions

Contraception

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-35

  Pace, Lydia ^a   Sandahl, Yarrow ^b   Backus, Lois ^b   Silveira, Maria ^a   Steinauer, Jody ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Medical Students for Choice   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Medical students; Medical Students for Choice

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY;

ABORTION, LEGAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 44949204364     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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