An innovative team collaboration assessment tool for a quality improvement curriculum

American Journal of Medical Quality

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-11

  Varkey, Prathibha ^a,b   Gupta, Priyanka ^a   Arnold, Jacqueline J ^a   Torsher, Laurence C ^a,c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Division of Preventive and Occupational Medicine

^c Department of Anesthesiology ^*

Author keywords

Assessment; Medical education; Objective structured clinical examination; Quality improvement; Systems based practice; Team collaboration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; CURRICULUM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 58149507854     PISSN: 10628606     EISSN: 1555824X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1062860608326420     Document Type: Article

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