"Making the grade:" Noncognitive predictors of medical students' clinical clerkship grades

Journal of the National Medical Association

Volumn 99, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1138-1150

  Lee, Katherine B ^a   Vaishnavi, Sanjeev N ^a   Lau, Steven K M ^b   Andriole, Dorothy A ^a   Jeffe, Donna B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clerkship grades; Clinical evaluation; Education; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASSERTIVENESS; CLINICAL EDUCATION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSTETRICS; PEDIATRICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35348990266     PISSN: 00279684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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