Self-guided clinical cases for medical students based on postmortem CT scans of cadavers

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 655-663

  Bohl, Michael ^a   Francois, Webster ^a   Gest, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical relevance in anatomy education; Novel techniques in medical education; Radiology in anatomy education; Teaching cross sectional anatomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CADAVER; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 79959819929     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.21143     Document Type: Article

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