Training the intern: The value of a pre-intern year in preparing students for practice

Medical Teacher

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Dare, Anna ^a   Fancourt, Nicholas ^b   Robinson, Elizabeth ^a   Wilkinson, Tim ^b   Bagg, Warwick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONSUMER; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STAFF; METHODOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NEW ZEALAND; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77449096091     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590903127669     Document Type: Review

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