Knowledge loss of medical students on first year basic science courses at the University of Saskatchewan

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  D'Eon, Marcel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURSE EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEMORY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; POST HOC ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT T TEST; ADULT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEACHING; TIME; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROANATOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; SASKATCHEWAN; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; TEACHING; TIME FACTORS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33644871437     PISSN: 14726920     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-6-5     Document Type: Article

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