Changing education, changing assessment, changing research?

Medical Education

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 805-812

  Schuwirth, Lambert W T ^a,b   Van Der Vleuten, Cees P M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clinical competence *standards; Education; Educational measurement *standards; Medical *methods standards; Reproducibility of results; Research design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PLANNING; RELIABILITY; ROLE PLAYING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 4043124724     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2004.01851.x     Document Type: Article

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