‘Can the patient speak?’: postcolonialism and patient involvement in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education

Medical Education

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 471-479

  Sharma, Malika ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Maple Leaf Medical   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; COLONIALISM; CURRICULUM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROCEDURES;

COLONIALISM; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 85045748341     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/medu.13501     Document Type: Article

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