Use of unannounced spaced telephone testing to improve retention of knowledge after life-support courses

Medical Teacher

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 731-737

  Turner, Nigel McBeth ^a   Scheffer, Ria ^b   Custers, Eugene ^a   Cate, Olle Th J Ten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TELEPHONE; TIME;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); TELEPHONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80051995145     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2010.542521     Document Type: Article

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