Professional Competence and Intuitive Decision Making: A Simulation Study in the Domain of Emergency Medicine

Vocations and Learning

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-136

  Harteis, Christian ^a   Morgenthaler, Barbara ^b   Kugler, Christine ^b   Ittner, Karl Peter ^c   Roth, Gabriel ^c   Graf, Bernhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; Expertise; Intuition; Professional competence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862496241     PISSN: 1874785X     EISSN: 18747868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12186-011-9070-9     Document Type: Article

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