Perspective: Serious play: Teaching medical skills with improvisational theater techniques

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1260-1265

  Watson, Katie ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 80053531301     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31822cf858     Document Type: Article

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