The role of biomedical knowledge in clinical reasoning: A lexical decision study

Academic Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 945-949

  Rikers, Remy M J P ^a,b   Loyens, Sofie ^b   Te Winkel, Wilco ^b   Schmidt, Henk G ^b   Sins, Patrick H M ^c  

^a Higher Education Research Centre Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 25444438750     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200510000-00015     Document Type: Article

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