Evaluating a lecture on cultural competence in the medical school preclinical curriculum

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 327-331

  Lim, Russell F ^a   Wegelin, Jacob ^b   Hua, Lisa L ^a   Kramer, Elizabeth J ^c   Servis, Mark E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48849098706     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.32.4.327     Document Type: Article

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