Competency based teaching: The need for a new approach to teaching clinical skills in the undergraduate medical education course

Medical Teacher

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 29-36

  Sanson Fisher, Rob W ^a   Rolfe, I E ^a   Williams, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPETENCE; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERNET; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STUDENT; STANDARDIZATION; TEACHING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; TEACHING;

EID: 17144379262     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590400019500     Document Type: Article

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