Spirituality and health in the curricula of medical schools in Brazil

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Lucchetti, Giancarlo ^a,b,c   Lucchetti, Alessandra Lamas Granero ^a   Espinha, Daniele Corcioli Mendes ^a   De Oliveira, Leandro Romani ^a,b   Leite, José Roberto ^b   Koenig, Harold G ^d,e  

^a Medical Spiritist Association of São Paulo   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Joao Evangelista Hospital   (Brazil)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Medical education; Medical schools; Medical students; Religion; Spirituality

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; CURRICULUM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BRAZIL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HEALTH; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVES; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SPIRITUALITY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84865229801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-12-78     Document Type: Article

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