Preceptorship rurality does not affect medical students' shelf exam scores

Family Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-115

  Lacy, Naomi L ^a,b   Geske, Jenenne A ^a   Goodman, Barbara J ^a   Hartman, Teresa L ^a   Paulman, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; RURAL AREA; SCORING SYSTEM;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PRECEPTORSHIP; RURAL POPULATION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33847374785     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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