Medical student and faculty perceptions of volunteer outpatients versus simulated patients in communication skills training

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1437-1442

  Clever, Sarah L ^a   Dudas, Robert A ^a   Solomon, Barry S ^a   Yeh, Hsin Chieh ^a,b   Levine, David ^a   Bertram, Amanda ^a   Goldstein, Mitchell ^a   Shilkofski, Nicole ^a   Cofrancesco, Joseph ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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EID: 80255123400     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182305bc0     Document Type: Article

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