Development and validation of the ACE tool: Assessing medical trainees' competency in evidence based medicine

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ilic, Dragan ^a   Nordin, Rusli Bin ^b   Glasziou, Paul ^c   Tilson, Julie K ^d   Villanueva, Elmer ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Evidence based medicine; Medical students

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84903276629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-14-114     Document Type: Article

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