Becoming a Doctor in Different Cultures: Toward a Cross-Cultural Approach to Supporting Professional Identity Formation in Medicine

Academic Medicine

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 58-62

  Helmich, Esther ^a,b   Yeh, Huei Ming ^c   Kalet, Adina ^d,e   Al Eraky, Mohamed ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d Department of Medicine and Surgery ^*  (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^g ZAGAZIG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84992386853     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001432     Document Type: Article

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