Relationship between peer assessment during medical school, dean's letter rankings, and ratings by internship directors

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 13-16

  Lurie, Stephen J ^a   Lambert, David R ^a   Nofziger, Anne C ^a   Epstein, Ronald M ^a   Grady Weliky, Tana A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Professionalism; Undergraduate medical education

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; EXERCISE; HABIT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEER GROUP; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; WORK; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; PEER REVIEW;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; NEW YORK; PEER REVIEW; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 34248583549     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-007-0117-4     Document Type: Article

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