Analogies in medicine: Valuable for learning, reasoning, remembering and naming

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 609-619

  Pena, Gil Patrus ^a   de Souza Andrade Filho, José ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FELÍCIO ROCHO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Analogy; Education; Medical; Metaphor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LITERATURE; MEMORY; NOMENCLATURE;

COGNITION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; METAPHOR; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 78049419897     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-008-9126-2     Document Type: Article

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