Quantitative and qualitative assessment of one rheumatology trainee's experience with a self-teaching programme in videocapillaroscopy

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 651-653

  De Angelis, Rossella ^a   Cutolo, M ^b   Salaffi, F ^a   Pablo Restrepo, J ^c   Grassi, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Capillaroscopy; Training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MICROVESSELS; PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION AS TOPIC; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; RHEUMATOLOGY; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC;

EID: 70350138024     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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