Medical students' essay-writing skills: Criteria-based self- and tutor-evaluation and the role of language background

Medical Education

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 194-198

  Chur Hansen, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Education; Evaluation studies; Language; Medical; Self evaluation programmes; Standards; Undergraduate; Writing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF EVALUATION; TEACHER; WRITING;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SELF-EVALUATION PROGRAMS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING; WRITING;

EID: 0034025930     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2000.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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