Influence of clerkship experiences on clinical competence

Medical Education

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 450-458

  Wimmers, Paul F ^a,c   Schmidt, Henk G ^b   Splinter, Ted A W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical clerkship *methods; Clinical competence *standards; Humans; Netherlands; Physician patient relations; Teaching *methods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RATING SCALE;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TEACHING;

EID: 33645958612     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02447.x     Document Type: Article

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