Dermatology undergraduate skin cancer training: A disconnect between recommendations, clinical exposure and competence

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Aldridge, R Benjamin ^a   Maxwell, Susanne S ^a   Rees, Jonathan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DERMATOLOGY; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN TUMOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TEACHING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DERMATOLOGY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCOTLAND; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860637785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-12-27     Document Type: Article

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