Association of volume of patient encounters with residents' in-training examination performance

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1035-1041

  McCoy, Christopher P ^a   Stenerson, Matthew B ^b   Halvorsen, Andrew J ^a   Homme, Jason H ^a   McDonald, Furman S ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LEARNING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PEDIATRICS; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84880512532     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-013-2398-0     Document Type: Article

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