Colorado Medical Students’ Attitudes and Beliefs About Marijuana

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 458-463

  Chan, Michael H ^a,b   Knoepke, Christopher E ^a   Cole, Madeline L ^a,c   McKinnon, James ^a   Matlock, Daniel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

doctor patient relationships; medical culture; medical education; psychometrics; substance abuse

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS; MEDICAL CANNABIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANNABIS USE; COLORADO; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LIKERT SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STUDENT ATTITUDE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CANNABIS SMOKING; DRUG LEGISLATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COLORADO; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, DRUG; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; MEDICAL MARIJUANA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85009737815     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-016-3957-y     Document Type: Article

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