Differential student attrition and differential exposure mask effects of problem-based learning in curriculum comparison studies

Academic Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 463-475

  Schmidt, Henk G ^a   Muijtjens, Arno M M ^b   Van Der Vleuten, Cees P M ^b   Norman, Geoffrey R ^c  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84859433856     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318249591a     Document Type: Review

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