Preparing Australian medical students for climate change

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 726-729

  Green, Evelyn I Hamel ^a   Blashki, Grant ^a   Berry, Helen L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING;

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 74049144068     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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