The impact of a modern medical curriculum on students' proposed behaviour on meeting ethical dilemmas

Medical Education

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 942-949

  Goldie, John ^a   Schwartz, Lisa ^b   McConnachie, Alex ^a   Morrison, Jillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attitude of health personnel; Cohort study; Curriculum; Education; Ethics; Medical; Medical *education; Students, medical; Undergraduate *methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; UNIVERSITY;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

COHORT STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SCOTLAND; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 4544366986     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2004.01915.x     Document Type: Article

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