Influence of educational programs on attitudes of medical students towards psychiatry: Effects of psychiatric experience, gender, and personality dimensions

Medical Teacher

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Kuhnigk, O ^a   Hofmann, M ^b   Bothern A M ^a   Haufs, C ^a   Bullinger, M ^a   Harendza, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONALITY; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE; CAREER CHOICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PSYCHIATRY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75549085500     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590802638048     Document Type: Article

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