En-case-ing the Patient: Disciplining Uncertainty in Medical Student Patient Presentations

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 163-182

  Holmes, Seth M ^a   Ponte, Maya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case presentation; Clinical training; Medical education; Patient presentation; Physician patient relationship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CURRICULUM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RECORD; UNCERTAINTY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MEDICAL RECORDS, PROBLEM-ORIENTED; NARRATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 79958023308     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-011-9213-3     Document Type: Article

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