Building a competency-based workplace curriculum around entrustable professional activities: The case of physician assistant training

Medical Teacher

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Mulder, Hanneke ^a   Cate, Olle Ten ^a   Daalder, Rieneke ^b   Berkvens, Josephine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; WORKPLACE;

COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; CURRICULUM; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 77957112773     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2010.513719     Document Type: Article

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