Undergraduate training in palliative medicine: Is more necessarily better?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 306-309

  Mason, Stephen R ^a   Ellershaw, John E ^a,b  

^a Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Medicine; Models; Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STUDENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PHOBIA; RATING SCALE; SELF CONCEPT; TEAMWORK; THANATOPHOBIA;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SELF EFFICACY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 77950621007     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216309351867     Document Type: Article

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