How can students' diagnostic competence benefit most from practice with clinical cases? the effects of structured reflection on future diagnosis of the same and novel diseases

Academic Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 121-127

  Mamede, Sílvia ^a   Van Gog, Tamara ^a   Sampaio, Alexandre Moura ^b   De Faria, Rosa Malena Delbone ^b   Maria, José Peixoto ^b   Schmidt, Henk G ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Universidade Jose do Rosario Vellano UNIFENAS   (Brazil)

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EID: 84893664716     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000076     Document Type: Article

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