Brief report: "Where do we teach what?": Finding broad concepts in the medical school curriculum

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 943-946

  Denny, Joshua C ^a   Smithers, Jeffrey D ^b   Armstrong, Brian ^a   Spickard III, Anderson ^a,c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BANNER GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Medical Center East   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstracting and indexing; Curriculum; Medical education; Medical informatics

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; DERMATOLOGY; GENETICS; HEALTH; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL SCHOOL; RADIOLOGY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; DOCUMENTATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ROC CURVE; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

CURRICULUM; DOCUMENTATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; ROC CURVE; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28444477373     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.0203.x     Document Type: Article

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