Narrative review: Use of student-generated logbooks in undergraduate medical education

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 153-164

  Denton, Gerald D ^a,b   DeMott, Chad ^a   Pangaro, Louis N ^a   Hemmer, Paul A ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WRITING;

DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; NARRATION; UNITED STATES; WRITING;

EID: 33646559261     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328015tlm1802_11     Document Type: Review

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