Do Contact and Empathy Mitigate Bias Against Gay and Lesbian People among Heterosexual First-Year Medical Students? A Report from the Medical Student CHANGE Study

Academic Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 645-651

  Burke, Sara E ^a   Dovidio, John F ^a   Przedworski, Julia M ^b   Hardeman, Rachel R ^c   Perry, Sylvia P ^d   Phelan, Sean M ^e   Nelson, David B ^c   Burgess, Diana J ^c   Yeazel, Mark W ^c   Van Ryn, Michelle ^e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMPATHY; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; LESBIANISM; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF EVALUATION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PREJUDICE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SELF-ASSESSMENT; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84934875339     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000661     Document Type: Article

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