Administration of open-ended test questions by computer in a clerkship final examination

Academic Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 835-839

  Wolfson, Philip J ^a   Veloski, J Jon ^a   Robeson, Mary R ^a   Maxwell, Kaye S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPUTER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TRAINING;

EID: 0034887855     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200108000-00018     Document Type: Article

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