Teaching medical students about obesity: A pilot program to address an unmet need through longitudinal relationships with bariatric surgery patients

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 176-183

  Roberts, David H ^a,b   Kane, Erin M ^a   Jones, Daniel B ^a   Almeida, Jacqueline M ^a   Bell, Sigall K ^a   Weinstein, Amy R ^a   Schwartzstein, Richard M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bariatric surgery; humanism in medicine; obesity; patient doctor relationship; surgical education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BODY MASS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; OBESITY; RISK; STEREOTYPY; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEACHER;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BOSTON; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OBESITY; PILOT PROJECTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 79959921265     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: 15533514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350611399298     Document Type: Article

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