Clinical skills as demonstrated by a comprehensive clinical performance examination: Who performs better - Men or women?

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 189-199

  Haist, Steven A ^a,b   Witzke, Donald B ^a   Quinlivan, Susan ^a   Murphy Spencer, Amy ^a   Wilson, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical performance examination; Clinical skills; Clinical skills performance and assessment; Gender; Gender differences; Medical students; Standardized patients

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX RATIO; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0642273287     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026072102739     Document Type: Article

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