Facilitating small groups: How to encourage student learning

Clinical Teacher

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-8

  Kitchen, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TEACHING;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 84855525135     PISSN: 17434971     EISSN: 1743498X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-498X.2011.00493.x     Document Type: Article

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