Procedural and examination skills of first-year house surgeons: A comparison of a simulation workshop versus 6 months of clinical ward experience alone

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1253, 2007, Pages

  Stolarek, Iwona ^a,b  

^a Hutt Valley District Health Board   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NEW ZEALAND; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PROSTATE DISEASE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM DISEASE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SIMULATION; SKILL; SPIROMETRY; STOMACH DISEASE; SURGEON; WORKSHOP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; SURGERY; TEACHING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT SIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF-EVALUATION PROGRAMS; SURGERY;

EID: 34249279858     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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