The actual versus idealized self: Exploring responses to feedback about implicit bias in health professionals

Academic Medicine

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 623-629

  Sukhera, Javeed ^a   Milne, Alexandra ^b   Teunissen, Pim W ^c,d   Lingard, Lorelei ^a   Watling, Chris ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; NURSE; PHYSICIAN; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONCEPT;

FORMATIVE FEEDBACK; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NURSES; PHYSICIANS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 85053228710     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002006     Document Type: Article

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