Imagination, Art, and Learning: A Web of Support

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-

  Abella, Isabel B ^a   Vladescu, Ilinca ^a   Turgeon, Danielle K ^a   Kumagai, Arno K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MEDICINE IN ART; NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 63249136565     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31819764e4     Document Type: Article

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