Educating medical students in laboratory medicine: A proposed curriculum

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 533-542

  Smith, Brian R ^a   Aguero Rosenfeld, Maria ^b   Anastasi, John ^c   Baron, Beverly ^c   Berg, Anders ^d   Bock, Jay L ^e   Campbell, Sheldon ^a   Crookston, Kendall P ^f   Fitzgerald, Robert ^g   Fung, Mark ^h   Haspel, Richard ^d   Howe, John Greg ^a   Jhang, Jeffrey ⁱ   Kamoun, Malek ^j   Koethe, Susan ^k   Krasowski, Matthew D ^l   Landry, Marie L ^a   Marques, Marisa B ^m   Rinder, Henry M ^a   Roberts, William ⁿ   Schreiber, William E ^o   Spitalnik, Steven L ⁱ   Tormey, Christopher A ^a   Wolf, Paul ^g   Wu, Yan Yun ^a   more..

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^k MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^m University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

more..

Author keywords

Curriculum; Laboratory medicine; Medical education; Medical student; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CONSULTATION; CURRICULUM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEMATOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; LABORATORY; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; MICROBIOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TEACHING; TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; HUMAN; STANDARD;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 77950507903     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCPQCT94SFERLNI     Document Type: Article

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