The pedagogical value of a student-run community-based experiential learning project: The yong loo lin school of medicine public health screening

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 686-691

  Wee, Liang En ^a   Yeo, Wei Xin ^a   Tay, Clifton M ^a   Lee, Jeannette J M ^a   Koh, Gerald Choon Huat ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Medical education; Student led; Voluntarism and skills

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NURSING STUDENT; PEDAGOGICS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGAPORE; TEAMWORK;

EID: 78149247501     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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