Using a Delphi process to establish consensus on emergency medicine clerkship competencies

Medical Teacher

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Penciner, Rick ^a,f   Langhan, Trevor ^b   Lee, Richard ^c   McEwen, Jill ^d   Woods, Robert A ^e   Bandiera, Glen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^f NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CONSENSUS; CURRICULUM; DELPHI STUDY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL SCHOOL; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

CANADA; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; CONSENSUS; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL;

EID: 79957600181     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2011.575903     Document Type: Article

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