Mental illness among us: A new curriculum to reduce mental illness stigma among medical students

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 385-391

  Aggarwal, Anuj K ^a   Thompson, Maxwell ^a   Falik, Rebecca ^b   Shaw, Amy ^a   O'Sullivan, Patricia ^a   Lowenstein, Daniel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kaiser Permanente ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROSCIENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STIGMA; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CURRICULUM; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROSCIENCES; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SOCIAL STIGMA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887892714     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.13040063     Document Type: Article

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