Assessing students' communication and interpersonal skills across evaluation settings

Family Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 643-648

  Chessman, Alexander W ^a   Blue, Amy V ^b   Gilbert, Gregory E ^b   Carey, Maura ^b   Mainous III, Arch G ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FAMILY MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LICENSING; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; STANDARDIZATION;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LICENSURE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0141954091     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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