Predicting medical students' academic performances by their cognitive abilities and personality characteristics

Academic Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 781-786

  Shen, Haikang ^a   Comrey, Andrew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030886809     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199709000-00013     Document Type: Article

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