Cutting costs of multiple mini-interviews - Changes in reliability and efficiency of the Hamburg medical school admission test between two applications

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hissbach, Johanna C ^a   Sehner, Susanne ^a   Harendza, Sigrid ^a   Hampe, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness analysis; Multiple mini interview; Optimization; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; GERMANY; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL SCHOOL; METHODOLOGY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GERMANY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84899097932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-14-54     Document Type: Review

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