Experience curves as an organizing framework for deliberate practice in emergency medicine learning

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1476-1480

  Pusic, Martin V ^a   Kessler, David ^b   Szyld, Demian ^a,c   Kalet, Adina ^a   Pecaric, Martin ^d   Boutis, Kathy ^e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Contrail Consulting Services ^*  (Canada)

^e HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING CURVE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; SKILL; WORK EXPERIENCE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; LEARNING; LEARNING CURVE;

EID: 84871769049     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12043     Document Type: Article

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