Integrative medical education: Educational strategies and preliminary evaluation of the Integrated Curriculum for Anthroposophic Medicine (ICURAM)

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 447-454

  Scheffer, Christian ^a,b   Tauschel, Diethard ^a   Neumann, Melanie ^a   Lutz, Gabriele ^a   Cysarz, Dirk ^a   Heusser, Peter ^a   Edelhäuser, Friedrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active learning; Anthroposophy; Complementary medicine; Curriculum; Integrative medicine; Learning; Medical education; Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; LEARNING STYLE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUDENT ATTITUDE; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ANTHROPOSOPHY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; LEARNING; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84870301840     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: 18735134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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