Teaching First-Year Medical Students Physiology: Does the Human Patient Simulator Allow for More Effective Teaching?

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 238-242

  Tan, G M ^a   Ti, L K ^a   Suresh, S ^a   Ho, B S ^a   Lee, T L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Education; Medical Students; Physiology; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STANDARD; TEACHING;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MANIKINS; PHYSIOLOGY; TEACHING;

EID: 0036562812     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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