Change in medical students' readiness for self-directed learning after a partially problem-based learning first year curriculum at the KIST medical college in Lalitpur, Nepal

Education for Health: Change in Learning and Practice

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Shankar, P R ^a   Bajracharya, O ^a   Jha, N ^a   Gurung, S B ^a   Ansari, S R ^a   Thapa, H S ^a  

^a Dept of Pharmacology   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Measurement; Medical students; Nepal; Readiness for self directed learning; Self directed learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051894653     PISSN: 13576283     EISSN: 14695804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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