Editorial: Current challenges and future opportunities for simulation in high-stakes assessment

Simulation in Healthcare

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-5

  Petrusa, Emil R ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLOPATHY; ARTHROSCOPY; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SIMULATION; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FUNDING; HEART SOUND; JUGULAR VEIN; KNOWLEDGE; LAPAROSCOPY; LICENSING; OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RESUSCITATION; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX PAIN; VALIDATION PROCESS; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 62849125924     PISSN: 15592332     EISSN: 1559713X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0b013e3181992077     Document Type: Editorial

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