Evaluation of a structured application assessment instrument for assessing applications to Canadian postgraduate training programs in emergency medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 594-598

  Bandiera, Glen ^a,b,c   Regehr, Glenn ^b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Applications; Reliability; Residency; Structured instrument

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0037602232     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2003.tb00041.x     Document Type: Article

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