The impact of cueing on written examinations of clinical decision making: A case study

Medical Education

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 255-261

  Desjardins, Isabelle ^a   Touchie, Claire ^a   Pugh, Debra ^a   Wood, Timothy J ^a   Humphrey Murto, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84894085899     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/medu.12296     Document Type: Article

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