Medical school preadmission interviews: Are structured interviews more reliable than unstructured interviews?

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 241-245

  Axelson, Rick ^a   Kreiter, Clarence ^a   Ferguson, Kristi ^b   Solow, Catherine ^a   Huebner, Kathi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957908924     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2010.511978     Document Type: Article

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