Medical students' clinical skills do not match their teachers' expectations: Survey at Zagreb University School of Medicine, Croatia

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 169-175

  Sičaja, Mario ^a,b   Romić, Dominik ^a   Prka, Željko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b NONE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEUROLOGY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEACHER; UNIVERSITY; UROLOGY;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROATIA; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 33644638796     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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