Were Today's Professors Good Students? Case Study of the Zagreb University School of Medicine

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 54-58

  Kuzman, Tomislav ^a,b   Bergovec, Marko ^a   Rojnić, Martina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Croatia; Educational measurement; Professors, medical; Schools, medical; Students, medical; Universities

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CAREER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STUDENT; TEACHER; UNIVERSITY;

CROATIA; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 1642505486     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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