Peer teaching: A randomised controlled trial using student-teachers to teach musculoskeletal ultrasound

Medical Education

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 148-155

  Knobe, Matthias ^a   Münker, Ralf ^b   Sellei, Richard M ^a   Holschen, Malte ^a   Mooij, Saskia C ^a   Schmidt Rohlfing, Bernhard ^a   Niethard, Fritz Uwe ^a   Pape, Hans Christoph ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Bethlehem Hospital Stolberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEER GROUP; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEACHING;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PEER GROUP; TEACHING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149183184     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03557.x     Document Type: Article

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