A pilot study of the mental workload of objective structured clinical examination examiners

Medical Education

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 262-267

  Byrne, Aidan ^a   Tweed, Nathan ^b   Halligan, Claire ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ABERTAWE BRO MORGANNWG UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; WORKLOAD;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEACHING; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84894089233     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: 13652923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/medu.12387     Document Type: Article

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