Effects on skills and practice from a web-based skin cancer course for primary care providers

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 648-657

  Eide, Melody J ^a   Asgari, Maryam M ^b   Fletcher, Suzanne W ^c,d   Geller, Alan C ^e   Halpern, Allan C ^f   Shaikh, Waqas R ^g   Li, Lingling ^c,d   Alexander, Gwen L ^a   Altschuler, Andrea ^b   Dusza, Stephen W ^f   Marghoob, Ashfaq A ^f   Quigley, Elizabeth A ^f   Weinstock, Martin A ^g,h,i  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^g PROVIDENCE VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational research; Medical education; Prevention; Primary health care; Screening; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER TEST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COURSE EVALUATION; DERMATOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MELANOMA; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PREVENTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SCREENING; SKIN CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DERMATOLOGY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888312868     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2013.06.130108     Document Type: Article

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