Commentary on shorter psychiatry clerkship length is associated with lower NBME psychiatry shelf exam performance

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 167-168

  Cutler, Janis L ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PSYCHIATRY; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PSYCHIATRY;

EID: 84863979298     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.12020025     Document Type: Note

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