Medical students teaching basic life support to school children as a required element of medical education: A randomised controlled study comparing three different approaches to fifth year medical training in emergency medicine

Resuscitation

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 158-165

  Breckwoldt, Jan ^a   Beetz, Dominik ^a   Schnitzer, Luise ^b   Waskow, Carsten ^a   Arntz, Hans Richard ^b   Weimann, Jörg ^a  

^a Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Intensive Care Medicine ^*  (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basic life support; Life long learning; Medical education; Resuscitation training; School children

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC LIFE SUPPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEACHING; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEACHING;

EID: 34249986830     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.11.017     Document Type: Article

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