A comparison of student performance in multiple-choice and long essay questions in the MBBS stage I physiology examination at the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus)

American Journal of Physiology - Advances in Physiology Education

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 86-89

  Pepple, Dagogo J ^a   Young, Lauriann E ^a   Carroll, Robert G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery; Medical education; Physiology; Student assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954631766     PISSN: 10434046     EISSN: 15221229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/advan.00087.2009     Document Type: Article

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