Undergraduate educational environment, perceived preparedness for postgraduate clinical training, and pass rate on the national medical licensure examination in Japan

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tokuda, Yasuharu ^a   Goto, Eiji ^b   Otaki, Junji ^c   Jacobs, Joshua ^d   Omata, Fumio ^e   Obara, Haruo ^f   Shapiro, Mina ^e   Soejima, Kumiko ^e   Ishida, Yasushi ^e   Ohde, Sachiko ^e   Takahashi, Osamu ^e   Fukui, Tsuguya ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f Okinawa Prefectural Chubu Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; LICENSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LICENSURE, MEDICAL; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77952340550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-10-35     Document Type: Article

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