What does it mean to be a mentor in medical education?

Medical Teacher

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Stenfors Hayes, Terese ^a   Hult, Håkan ^b   Dahlgren, Lars Owe ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TEACHER; TEACHING;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, DENTAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTORS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STUDENTS, DENTAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 79960695252     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2011.586746     Document Type: Article

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