Medical students and psychiatry: An attitude change?

Medical Education Online

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Aggarwal, Rashi ^a   Guanci, Nicole ^a   Caracci, Giovanni ^a   Concepcion, Erika ^b  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84880163117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10872981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/meo.v18i0.20676     Document Type: Letter

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