Learning PDA skills online is feasible and acceptable to clerkship students

Family Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 696-699

  Strayer, Scott M ^a,b   Williams, Pamela M ^b   Stephens, Mark B ^b   Yew, Kenneth S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 56749112196     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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