Ethnic stereotypes and the underachievement of UK medical students from ethnic minorities: Qualitative study

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7670, 2008, Pages 611-615

  Woolf, Katherine ^a   Cave, Judith ^a   Greenhalgh, Trisha ^a   Dacre, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STEREOTYPY; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; ASIA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MINORITY GROUP; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STATISTICS; TEACHING;

ASIA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LONDON; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING; UNDERACHIEVEMENT;

EID: 51949093375     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a1220     Document Type: Article

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