Teaching the musculoskeletal examination: Are patient educators as effective as rheumatology faculty?

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 175-180

  Humphrey Murto, Susan ^a,c   Smith, C Douglas ^a   Touchie, Claire ^a   Wood, Timothy C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b Medical Council of Canada   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RANDOMIZATION; RATING SCALE; RHEUMATOLOGY; SATISFACTION; SKILL; TEACHER; TEACHING;

EID: 3042736361     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328015tlm1602_10     Document Type: Article

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