Anatomy teaching assistants: Facilitating teaching skills for medical students through apprenticeship and mentoring

Medical Teacher

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages e919-e925

  Lachman, Nirusha ^a   Christensen, Kevin N ^a   Pawlina, Wojciech ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PEER GROUP; TEACHER; TEACHING; UNITED STATES;

ANATOMY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MENTORS; MINNESOTA; PEER GROUP; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871974417     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.714880     Document Type: Article

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