Collaboration across the pond: The multi-school progress testing project

Medical Teacher

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 480-485

  Swanson, D B ^a   Holtzman, K Z ^a   Butler, A ^a   Langer, M M ^a   Nelson, M V ^a   Chow, J W M ^b   Fuller, R ^c   Patterson, J A ^d   Boohan, M ^e  

^a NATIONAL BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS   (United States)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; LICENSING; MEDICAL SCHOOL; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; LICENSURE, MEDICAL; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953141168     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2010.485655     Document Type: Article

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