Online "spaced education progress-testing" of students to confront two upcoming challenges to Medical Schools

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 300-306

  Kerfoot, B Price ^a   Shaffer, Kitt ^b   McMahon, Graham T ^c   Baker, Harley ^d   Kirdar, Jamil ^a   Kanter, Steven ^e   Corbett, Eugene C ^f   Berkow, Roger ^g   Krupat, Edward ^a   Armstrong, Elizabeth G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^g University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

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EID: 79952196378     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182087bef     Document Type: Article

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