How doctors learn: Physicians' self-directed learning episodes

Academic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1106-1117

  Slotnick, H B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESEARCH; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SKILL;

EID: 0032721638     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199910000-00014     Document Type: Article

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