Randomised, controlled study investigating the optimal instructor: Student ratios for teaching suturing skills

Medical Education

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-63

  Dubrowski, Adam ^a   MacRae, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

*Suture techniques; Analysis of variance; Clinical competence *standards; Education, medical, undergraduate *methods; Humans; Randomised controlled trial (publication type); Teaching *methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; SUTURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHER; TEACHING; WOUND CLOSURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SUTURING METHOD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TEACHING;

EID: 33645232180     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02347.x     Document Type: Article

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