Mini-clinical evaluation exercise as a student assessment tool in a surgery clerkship: Lessons learned from a 5-year experience

Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 272-277

  Pernar, Luise I M ^a   Peyre, Sarah E ^a,b   Warren, Laura E G ^b   Gu, Xiangmei ^a   Lipsitz, Stuart ^a,b   Alexander, Erik K ^a,b   Ashley, Stanley W ^a,b   Breen, Elizabeth M ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MINI CLINICAL EVALUATION EXERCISE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROFESSIONALISM; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STUDENT ATTITUDE; SURGICAL TRAINING; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79960911357     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2011.06.012     Document Type: Article

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