Does a new undergraduate curriculum based on Tomorrow's Doctors prepare house officers better for their first post? A qualitative study of the views of pre-registration house officers using critical incidents

Medical Education

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1100-1108

  O'Neill, Paul A ^a   Jones, Alison ^a   Willis, Sarah C ^a   McArdle, Patricia J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical competence standards; Communication; Decision making; Education, medical, graduate Black starmethods; England; Problem based learning Black starmethods

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CURRICULUM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT RIGHT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING;

EID: 0346162168     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2003.01714.x     Document Type: Review

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