Cognitive Tools in a Clinical Encounter in Medicine: Supporting Empathy and Expertise in Distributed Systems

Educational Psychology Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-24

  Lebeau, Robert B ^a,b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive tools; Distributed cognition; Expertise; Medical education; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032398695     PISSN: 1040726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022854014093     Document Type: Article

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