Do virtual computer models hinder anatomy learning?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 1999, Pages s87-s89

  Oarg, Amit ^a   Norman, Geoffrey R ^a   Spero, Lawrence ^a   Maheshwari, Puroo ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CANADA; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CURRICULUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0032694241     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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