Lessons from industry: One school's transformation toward "lean" curricular governance

Academic Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 331-340

  Stratton, Terry D ^a,b   Rudy, David W ^b   Sauer, Marlene J ^b   Perman, Jay A ^b,c   Jennings, C Darrell ^b  

^a Student Assessment and Program Evaluation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c College of Medicine ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION PROGRAM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247099805     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3180334ada     Document Type: Article

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