Speed kills? Speed, accuracy, encapsulations and causal understanding

Medical Education

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 973-979

  Woods, Nicole N ^a,c   Howey, Elizabeth H A ^b   Brooks, Lee R ^b   Norman, Geoffrey R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Wilson Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

*diagnosis; Clinical competence *standards; Education, medical, undergraduate *methods; Memory; Psychological tests; Psychology *education; Teaching *methods

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERFORMANCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SKILL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLOGY; TEACHING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748946023     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02556.x     Document Type: Article

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