Graphic medicine: Use of comics in medical education and patient care

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7746, 2010, Pages 574-577

  Green, Michael J ^a   Myers, Kimberly R ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METASTASIS; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CARTOONS AS TOPIC; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; PATIENT CARE; TEACHING; TEACHING MATERIALS; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 77949361399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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