A tale of two cities: Understanding the differences in medical professionalism between two chinese cultural contexts

Academic Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 944-950

  Ho, Ming Jung ^a   Yu, Kun Hsing ^b   Pan, Hui ^c   Norris, Jessie L ^a   Liang, You Sin ^a   Li, Jia Ning ^d   Hirsh, David ^e,f  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^d PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; CHINA; CITY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STUDENT; NURSE; NURSING STUDENT; PHYSICIAN; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD; TAIWAN;

ALTRUISM; CHINA; CITIES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHICS, MEDICAL; ETHICS, NURSING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL VALUES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, NURSING; TAIWAN;

EID: 84903642645     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000240     Document Type: Article

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