Students' learning approaches at medical schools applying different curricula in Turkey

Kuwait Medical Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 311-316

  Tetik, Cihat ^a   Gurpinar, Erol ^b   Bati, Hilal ^c  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Education; Medical students; Study characteristics; Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURRICULUM; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; HYBRID; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MOTHER; PARENT; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY;

EID: 75349104185     PISSN: 00235776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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