Predicting medical student performance from attributes at entry: A latent class analysis

Medical Education

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 308-316

  Lambe, Paul ^a   Bristow, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; SCIENCE; STATISTICS;

ACHIEVEMENT; EDUCATION, PREMEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SCIENCE;

EID: 79551664529     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03897.x     Document Type: Article

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