Skills of primary healthcare physicians in paediatric cardiac auscultation

Acta Paediatrica, International Journal of Paediatrics

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Germanakis, Ioannis ^a   Petridou, Eleni Th ^b   Varlamis, George ^c   Matsoukis, Ioannis L ^b   Papadopoulou Legbelou, Kiriaki ^c   Kalmanti, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Digital phonocardiography; Multimedia based teaching; Murmur; Paediatric cardiac auscultation; Primary healthcare physicians

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PEDIATRICIAN; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; STUDENT; TEACHING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GREECE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART MURMURS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; PEDIATRICS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84872339838     PISSN: 08035253     EISSN: 16512227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/apa.12062     Document Type: Article

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