How do gender and anxiety affect students' self-assessment and actual performance on a high-stakes clinical skills examination?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-48

  Colbert Getz, Jorie M ^a   Fleishman, Carol ^b   Jung, Julianna ^a   Shilkofski, Nicole ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84872087737     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318276bcc4     Document Type: Article

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