Do clinical breast examination skills improve during medical school?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1013-1019

  Lee, Karen C ^a   Dunlop, Dorothy ^a   Dolan, Nancy C ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPETENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031670950     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199809000-00025     Document Type: Article

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