Facilitation of students' discussion in problem-based learning tutorials to create mechanisms: The use of five key questions

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 492-498

  Azer, Samy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Medical education; Pathophysiology; PBL tutors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 27144520261     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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