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Informed consent in clinical practice: pre-registration house officers’ knowledge, difficulties and the need for postgraduate training

Dr Jan Schildmann Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Department of Medicine III, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Annie Cushing Clinical, Communication and Learning Skills Unit, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, Barts and The London, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK
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Len Doyal Department of Human Science and Medical Ethics, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK
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Jochen Vollmann Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Ethics and Department of Medicine III, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
Pages 649-651 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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