An investigation of the difficulty of computer-based case simulations

Medical Education

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 150-158

  Scheuneman, Janice Dowd ^a,b   Van Fan, Yihua ^a   Clyman, Stephen G ^a  

^a NATIONAL BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS   (United States)

^b Quality Assessment Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Education, medical; Educational measurement; Feedback; Pennsylvania; Physical examination; Teaching, method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PENNSYLVANIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TEACHING;

EID: 0031835720     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.1998.00193.x     Document Type: Article

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