Self-monitoring and its relationship to medical knowledge

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 311-323

  McConnell, Meghan M ^a   Regehr, Glenn ^b   Wood, Timothy J ^a   Eva, Kevin W ^b  

^a Medical Council of Canada   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Medical education; Medical student; Physician competency; Self assessment; Self monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; SELF EFFICACY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84862666341     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-011-9305-4     Document Type: Article

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