Curricular reform may improve students' performance on externally administered comprehensive examinations

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 443-448

  Damjanov, Ivan ^a   Fenderson, Bruce A ^b   Hojat, Mohammadreza ^b   Rubin, Emanuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; EXAMINATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; SATISFACTION; UNITED STATES;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY; PENNSYLVANIA; TEACHING;

EID: 18844411047     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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