Personal characteristics associated with resident physicians' self perceptions of preparedness to deliver cross-cultural care

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1953-1958

  Lopez, Lenny ^a   Vranceanu, Ana Maria ^a   Cohen, Amy P ^c   Betancourt, Joseph ^a   Weissman, Joel S ^a,b,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Executive Office of Health and Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural care; Graduate medical education; Workforce diversity

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIA; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CENTER; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROBABILITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SKILL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIANS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 57249094273     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-008-0782-y     Document Type: Article

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