Introducing personal digital assistants to family physician teachers

Family Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-59

  Topps, David ^a   Thomas, Roger ^a   Crutcher, Rodney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST; DATA BASE; DEVICE; DIGITAL COMPUTER; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SATISFACTION; TEACHING; UNIVERSITY;

COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEACHING; TEACHING MATERIALS;

EID: 0037252052     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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