An interdisciplinary community diagnosis experience in an undergraduate medical curriculum: Development at Ghent University

Academic Medicine

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 675-683

  Art, Bruno ^a   De Roo, Leen ^a   Willems, Sara ^a   De Maeseneer, Jan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL WORK STUDENT; SOCIAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; PATIENT CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL WORK; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BELGIUM; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL WORK; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 47549093544     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31817829a6     Document Type: Review

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