Adapting the Key Features Examination for a clinical clerkship

Medical Education

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 160-165

  Hatala, Rose ^a   Norman, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

*Educational measurement; Clinical clerkship *method; Decision making; Reproducibility of results; Writing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; EXAMINATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGANIZATION; PERFORMANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RELIABILITY;

CANADA; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0036172760     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2002.01067.x     Document Type: Article

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