Virtual patient simulation: Knowledge gain or knowledge loss

Medical Teacher

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 562-568

  Botezatu, Mihaela ^a   Hult, Hkan ^a   Tessma, Mesfin Kassaye ^a   Fors, Uno ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954981857     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01421590903514630     Document Type: Article

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