Medical clerks' attitudes towards the basic sciences: A longitudinal and a cross-sectional comparison between students in a conventional and an innovative curriculum

Medical Teacher

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 772-777

  Custers, Eugène J F M ^a   Ten Cate, Olle Th J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL STUDENT; STUDENT ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; SCIENCE; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NETHERLANDS; SCIENCE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 45549106651     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590701509696     Document Type: Article

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