Developing competence assessment procedure for spinal anaesthesia

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 397-402

  Zhang, Dajie ^a   Breen, Dorothy ^b   Aboulafia, Annette ^c   Albert, Dietrich ^a   Kulcsár, Zsuzsanna ^b   Lövquist, Erik ^c   Hockemeyer, Cord ^a   Shorten, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Department of Medicine National University of Ireland Cork

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSE SSMENT PROCEDURE; ASSESSMENT TOOLS; CLINICAL COGNITION; COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS; COMPUTER-BASED MEDICAL SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN; INNOVATIVE APPROACHES; INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; KNOWLEDGE SPACE THEORY; MEDICAL DOMAINS; MEDICAL TRAINING; PERSONALIZED LEARNING; TECHNICAL SKILLS; TRAINING PROGRAMMES;

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ANESTHESIOLOGY;

EID: 51849094998     PISSN: 10637125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2008.25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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