How do medical teachers address the problem of transfer?

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 345-360

  Laksov, Klara Bolander ^a   Lonka, Kirsti ^a,b   Josephson, Anna ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Curriculum design; Medical education; Student learning; Teacher training; Transfer; Undergraduate education

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL;

ANATOMY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FACULTY, MEDICAL; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LEARNING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 50849096104     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-006-9048-9     Document Type: Article

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