Learning the facts in medical school is not enough: Which factors predict successful application of procedural knowledge in a laboratory setting?

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Schmidmaier, Ralf ^a   Eiber, Stephan ^a   Ebersbach, Rene ^a   Schiller, Miriam ^a   Hege, Inga ^a   Holzer, Matthias ^a   Fischer, Martin R ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinical experience; Conceptual knowledge; Conditional knowledge; Key feature problems; Prior cognitive performance; Problem solving task; Procedural knowledge; Strategic knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSICIANS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874086353     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-28     Document Type: Article

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