'Stereotypes are reality': Addressing stereotyping in Canadian Aboriginal medical education

Medical Education

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 612-622

  Ly, Anh ^a   Crowshoe, Lynden ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INUIT; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; RACISM; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; STEREOTYPING;

CANADA; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INUITS; MALE; RACISM; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84929395855     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/medu.12725     Document Type: Article

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