Strategies to read and learn: Overcoming learning by consumption

Medical Education

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 340-346

  McNamara, Danielle S ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING;

COMPREHENSION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; READING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 77949878409     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03550.x     Document Type: Article

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