Validating the standardized-patient assessment administered to medical students in the New York City consortium

Academic Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 619-626

  Swartz, Mark H ^a   Colliver, Jerry A ^b   Bardes, Charles L ^c   Charon, Rita ^d   Fried, Ethan D ^e   Moroff, Saul ^f  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^e SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH HAZARD; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0030841839     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199707000-00014     Document Type: Article

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