The multiple mini-interview in the UK context: 3 years of experience at Dundee

Medical Teacher

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 297-304

  Dowell, Jon ^a   Lynch, Bonnie ^a   Till, Hettie ^a   Kumwenda, Ben ^a   Husbands, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SCOTLAND;

EID: 84859200318     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.652706     Document Type: Article

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