The rotational approach to medical education: Time to confront our assumptions?

Medical Education

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-80

  Holmboe, Eric ^a,b   Ginsburg, Shiphra ^a,b   Bernabeo, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 78650150107     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03847.x     Document Type: Article

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