Assessing the perceptions of a biostatistics and epidemiology module: Views of Year 2 medical students from a Malaysian university. A cross-sectional survey

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Daher, Aqil M ^a   Amin, Farzana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALAYSIA; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

BIOSTATISTICS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953603230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-10-34     Document Type: Article

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