Alternating skills training and clerkships to ease the transition from preclinical to clinical training

Medical Teacher

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Van Hell, Elisabeth A ^a   Kuks, Jan B M ^a   Borleffs, Jan C C ^a   Cohen Schotanus, Janke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; NETHERLANDS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; TIME; WORKLOAD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84855712837     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2011.611837     Document Type: Article

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