Medical students' clinical reasoning skills as a function of basic science achievement and clinical competency measures: A structural equation model

Academic Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Donnon, Tyrone ^a   Violato, Claudio ^a  

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Indexed keywords

APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

APTITUDE TESTS; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 35949003316     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.acm.0000236543.88782.b6     Document Type: Article

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