A simple curriculum content change increased medical student comfort with transgender medicine

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 633-637

  Safer, Joshua ^a   Pearce, Elizabeth ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; COURSE CONTENT; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH SERVICE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TRANSGENDERISM;

BOSTON; CURRICULUM; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 84883394017     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: 19342403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP13014.OR     Document Type: Article

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