Is there equivalency between students in a longitudinal, rural clerkship and a traditional urban-based program?

Family Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 702-706

  Zink, Therese ^a   Power, David V ^a   Finstad, Deborah ^a   Brooks, Kathleen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINNESOTA; PRECEPTORSHIP; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 78249259030     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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