The Necessity of Social Medicine in Medical Education

Academic Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 565-568

  Westerhaus, Michael ^a,b   Finnegan, Amy ^b,c   Haidar, Mona ^d   Kleinman, Arthur ^e   Mukherjee, Joia ^f   Farmer, Paul ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Medica   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^d LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f PARTNERS IN HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL MEDICINE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SOCIAL MEDICINE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84936100510     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000571     Document Type: Review

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