Using tagged items to detect threats to security in a nationally administered standardized patient examination

Academic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 1999, Pages s55-s57

  Macmillan, Mary K ^a   De Champlain, Andre E ^a   Klass, Daniel J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; JOB PERFORMANCE; LICENSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0032740114     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199910000-00039     Document Type: Article

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