Acquisition of clinical competence: Added value of clerkship real-life contextual experience

Medical Teacher

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Rudaz, Andrea ^a   Gut, Anne M ^a   Louis Simonet, Martine ^a   Perrier, Arnaud ^a   Vu, Nu V ^a   Nendaz, Mathieu R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; PATIENTS; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84874163301     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.714887     Document Type: Article

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