Using electronic flashcards to promote learning in medical students: Retesting versus restudying

Medical Education

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1101-1110

  Schmidmaier, Ralf ^a   Ebersbach, Rene ^a   Schiller, Miriam ^a   Hege, Inga ^a   Holzer, Matthias ^a   Fischer, Martin R ^a,b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054028705     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2011.04043.x     Document Type: Article

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