Medical students educate teens about skin cancer: What have we learned?

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 153-155

  Kamell, Jeanette M ^a,b,c   Rietkerk, William ^a   Lam, Ken ^a   Phillips, Jason M ^a   Wu, Jashin J ^a,d   McCullough, Jerry L ^a   Linden, Kenneth G ^a   Osann, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^d KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Melanoma awareness; Outreach; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL; SKIN TUMOR; TEACHING;

ADOLESCENT; COMMUNICATION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 79959497730     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: 15430154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13187-010-0120-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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