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Medical Education: Training for the Desirable Traits in Past, Present and Future Doctors?

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Universities, the Citizen Scholar and the Future of Higher Education

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Consider a time when you have been sick and you have required medical attention. Now think about the traits that you wanted in your doctor, and the best and the worst experiences you have had with medical practitioners.

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  1. Joanne M. Lind
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  1. Graduate Research School, University of Western Sydney, Australia

    James Arvanitakis (Dean) (Dean)

  2. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    David J. Hornsby (Senior Lecturer in International Relations) (Senior Lecturer in International Relations)

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Lind, J.M. (2016). Medical Education: Training for the Desirable Traits in Past, Present and Future Doctors?. In: Arvanitakis, J., Hornsby, D.J. (eds) Universities, the Citizen Scholar and the Future of Higher Education. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137538697_12

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