Benchmarking progress tests for cross-institutional comparisons: Every road makes a difference and all of them have bumps

Medical Education

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 4-7

  Albanese, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; NOTE; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM;

BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL;

EID: 37549056990     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2007.02942.x     Document Type: Note

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