Teaching clinical reasoning: Case-based and coached

Academic Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1118-1124

  Kassirer, Jerome P ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77954921238     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181d5dd0d     Document Type: Article

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