Learner preferences regarding integrating, sequencing and aligning virtual patients with other activities in the undergraduate medical curriculum: A focus group study

Medical Teacher

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 920-929

  Huwendiek, Sören ^a,b   Duncker, Cecilia ^d   Reichert, Friedrich ^e   De Leng, Bas A ^f   Dolmans, Diana ^f   Van Der Vleuten, Cees P M ^f   Haag, Martin ^c   Hoffmann, Georg Friedrich ^b   Tönshoff, Burkhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c HEILBRONN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^e OLGAHOSPITAL   (Germany)

^f MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSUMER; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PEDIATRICS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; LEARNING; PEDIATRICS;

EID: 84886908892     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2013.826790     Document Type: Article

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