Assessing the communication and interpersonal skills of graduates of international medical schools as part of the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) step 2 clinical skills (CS) exam

Academic Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Van Zanten, Marta ^a   Boulet, John R ^b   McKinley, Danette W ^b   DeChamplain, Andre ^b   Jobe, Ann C ^b  

^a FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE; LICENSING; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL SCHOOL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDITY;

EID: 34748866607     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318141f40a     Document Type: Article

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