Student perspectives on the diversity climate at a U.S. medical school: The need for a broader definition of diversity

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Dhaliwal, Jasmeet S ^a   Crane, Lori A ^b   Valley, Morgan A ^a   Lowenstein, Steven R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Food Science and Human Nutrition   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Diversity climate; Medical education; Medical student perspectives

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED STATES;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84876090784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-154     Document Type: Article

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