The role of biomedical knowledge in diagnosis of difficult clinical cases

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 417-426

  Woods, Nicole N ^a   Brooks, Lee R ^b   Norman, Geoffrey R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basic science; Causal models; Clinical reasoning; Diagnostic reasoning; Learning; Undergraduate education

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGY; SCIENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAUSALITY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; ONTARIO; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL; SCIENCE;

EID: 34548765523     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-006-9054-y     Document Type: Article

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