Teaching clinical reasoning - a preliminary controlled study

Medical Education

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 480-483

  Round, A P ^a  

^a Dean Clarke House ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayes' theorem; Clinical competence; Cohort studies; Diagnosis; Undergraduate medical education, methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT;

EID: 0032784953     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.1999.00352.x     Document Type: Article

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