Improving student selection using multiple mini-interviews with multifaceted rasch modeling

Academic Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 216-223

  Till, Hettie ^a   Myford, Carol ^b   Dowell, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 84873411567     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31827c0c5d     Document Type: Article

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