Diagnostic ability in relation to clinical seminars and extended-matching questions examinations

Medical Education

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1173-1179

  Beullens, Johan ^a   Struyf, Elke ^a   Van Damme, Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

*Decision making; *Diagnosis; Belgium; Clinical competence *standards; Education, medical, undergraduate *organisation administration standards; Problem solving; Teaching *methods standards

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CURRICULUM; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXAMINATION; EXTENDED MATCHING QUESTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; STANDARD; TEACHING;

BELGIUM; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEACHING;

EID: 33751317029     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02627.x     Document Type: Article

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