Assessing the acquisition of core clinical skills through the use of serial standardized patient assessments

Academic Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 480-483

  Prislin, Michael D ^a,d   Giglio, Mark ^b   Lewis, Ellen M ^a   Ahearn, Sue ^a   Radecki, Stephen ^c  

^a Office of Medical Education   (United States)

^b Department of Family Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPETENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 0034064889     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200005000-00019     Document Type: Article

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