Using standardized patients to evaluate undergraduate medical students' proficiency in speaking English

Academic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 829-834

  Chur Hansen, Anna ^a   Vernon Roberts, Jane ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0032817299     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199907000-00018     Document Type: Article

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