Students' self-explanations while solving unfamiliar cases: The role of biomedical knowledge

Medical Education

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1109-1116

  Chamberland, Martine ^a   Mamede, Sílvia ^b   St Onge, Christina ^a   Rivard, Marc Antoine ^a   Setrakian, Jean ^a   Lévesque, Annie ^a   Lanthier, Luc ^a   Schmidt, Henk G ^b   Rikers, Remy M J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84885460609     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/medu.12253     Document Type: Article

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