The utility of pre-residency standardized tests for anesthesiology resident selection: The place of united states medical licensing examination scores

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 201-206

  Guffey, Ryan C ^a   Rusin, Konstantin ^a   Chidiac, Elie J ^a   Marsh, H Michael ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; AVERAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LICENSING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SCORING SYSTEM; TRAINING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650937323     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181fcfacd     Document Type: Article

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