Can student tutors act as examiners in an objective structured clinical examination?

Medical Education

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1032-1038

  Chenot, Jean François ^a   Simmenroth Nayda, Anne ^a   Koch, Alexandra ^a   Fischer, Thomas ^a   Scherer, Martin ^a   Emmert, Birgit ^a   Stanske, Beate ^a   Kochen, Michael M ^a   Himmel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

*education, medical, undergraduate; *peer review; *students, medical; *teaching; Educational measurement ; Germany; Methods; Observer variation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; STUDENT T TEST; TEACHING;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PEER REVIEW; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 35648954680     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2007.02895.x     Document Type: Article

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