Well prepared for work? Junior doctors' self-assessment after medical education

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ochsmann, Elke B ^a   Zier, Ulrike ^b   Drexler, Hans ^c   Schmid, Klaus ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; SELF EVALUATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF-ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 82055181586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-11-99     Document Type: Article

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