No content without context: Integrating basic, clinical, and social sciences in a pre-clerkship curriculum

Medical Teacher

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 812-821

  Wilkerson, Luann ^a   Stevens, Carl M ^a   Krasne, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; SCIENCE; SOCIOLOGY; TEACHING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; LEARNING; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SCIENCE; SOCIAL SCIENCES; TEACHING;

EID: 78650141618     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01421590903049806     Document Type: Article

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