Transforming admissions: The gateway to medicine

JAMA

Volumn 308, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 2250-2251

  Kirch, Darrell G ^a  

^a ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COPING BEHAVIOR; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICINE; MULTIPLE MINI INTERVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PERSONALITY; PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL ADMISSION;

EID: 84870566336     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.74126     Document Type: Editorial

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