Easing the transition from student to doctor: How can medical schools help prepare their graduates for starting work?

Medical Teacher

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 403-408

  Cave, Judith ^a   Woolf, Katherine ^a   Jones, Alison ^a   Dacre, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXTRAVERSION; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PHYSICIAN; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; QUESTIONNAIRE; TEACHING; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 70849135156     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590802348127     Document Type: Article

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