Use of learning styles to enhance graduate education

Journal of Allied Health

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Murray, Cindy ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

EDUCATION, GRADUATE; HUMANS; LEARNING; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; STUDENTS, HEALTH OCCUPATIONS;

EID: 83455247256     PISSN: 00907421     EISSN: 1945404X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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