Ethnic disparities in undergraduate pre-clinical and clinical performance

Medical Education

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 575-585

  Stegers Jager, Karen M ^a   Steyerberg, Ewout W ^a   Cohen Schotanus, Janke ^b   Themmen, Axel P N ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; MINORITY GROUP; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; RACE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; UNDERACHIEVEMENT;

EID: 84861476233     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2012.04265.x     Document Type: Article

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