Christmas 2008: Formative years: Right-left discrimination among medical students: questionnaire and psychometric study

BMJ

Volumn 337, Issue 7684, 2008, Pages

  Gormley, Gerard J ^a   Dempster, Martin ^b   Best, Rachael ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CITIZENSHIP; DENMARK; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APTITUDE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61449241086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a2826     Document Type: Article

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