Western medical ethics taught to junior medical students can cross cultural and linguistic boundaries
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Western medical ethics taught to junior medical students can cross cultural and linguistic boundaries
BACKGROUND Little is known about teaching medical ethics across cultural and linguistic boundaries. This study examined two successive cohorts of first year medical students in a six year undergraduate MBBS program. METHODS The objective was to investigate whether Arabic speaking students studying medicine in an Arabic country would be able to correctly identify some of the principles of West...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Ethics
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1472-6939
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6939-5-4