Thirty years of illness scripts: Theoretical origins and practical applications

Medical Teacher

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 457-462

  Custers, Eugène J F M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TIME;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME;

EID: 84929156650     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2014.956052     Document Type: Article

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