Teaching clinical thinking to first-year medical students

Medical Teacher

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 105-111

  Fuks, Abraham ^a   Boudreau, Joseph Donald ^a   Cassell, Eric J ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM; DIAGNOSTIC REASONING; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PEDAGOGICS; PHYSICIAN; TEACHING; THINKING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING; THINKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67649992430     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590802512979     Document Type: Article

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