Comparing checklists and databases with physicians' ratings as measures of students' history and physical-examination skills

Academic Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 313-317

  MacRae, Helen M ^a,b   Vu, Nu Viet ^a   Graham, Brent ^c   Word Sims, Margaret ^d   Colliver, Jerry A ^e   Robbs, Randall S ^e  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Med Microbiology Immunology Dept   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SKILL;

EID: 0028960833     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199504000-00015     Document Type: Article

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