Growth of analytical thinking skills over time as measured with the MATCH test

Medical Education

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1037-1043

  Groothoff, Jaap W ^a,b   Frenkel, Joost ^c   Tytgat, Godelieve A M ^d   Vreede, Willem B ^e   Bosman, Diederik K ^f   Ten Cate, Olle Th J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b EMMA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d ZAANS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Flevo Hospital   (Netherlands)

^f Onze Lieve Vrouwen Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

*thinking; Clinical clerkship *standards; Clinical competence *standards; Humans; Multicentre study publication type ; Paediatrics *education; Students, medical *psychology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PEDIATRICIAN; RESIDENT; SKILL; THINKING;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; PEDIATRICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; THINKING;

EID: 51649126819     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2008.03152.x     Document Type: Article

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