Educational strategies to promote clinical diagnostic reasoning

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 355, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 2217-2225

  Bowen, Judith L ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CURRICULUM; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEACHER;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; GOUT; HUMANS; INFECTION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; TEACHING; THINKING;

EID: 33751253773     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMra054782     Document Type: Review

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