The relationship between second-year medical students' OSCE scores and USMLE step 1 scores

Medical Teacher

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 535-539

  Simon, Steven R ^a   Volkan, Kevin ^b   Hamann, Claus ^c   Duffey, Carol ^a   Fletcher, Susan W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LICENSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BOSTON; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 18744378817     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0142159021000012586     Document Type: Article

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