Impact of an intercalated BSc on medical student performance and careers: A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 28

Medical Teacher

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Jones, Melvyn ^a   Hutt, Patrick ^a   Eastwood, Sophie ^b   Singh, Surinder ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAREER CHOICE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84884521521     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2013.806983     Document Type: Article

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