Procedural skills: What's taught in medical school, what outh to be?

Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Turner, S R ^a   Hanson, J ^b   de Gara, C J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Medical education; Procedural skills; Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTICLE; CANADA; DATA ANALYSIS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; TEACHING;

EID: 34548308453     PISSN: 13576283     EISSN: 14695804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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