Twelve tips to support the development of clinical reasoning skills using virtual patient cases

Medical Teacher

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 813-818

  Posel, Nancy ^a   Mcgee, James B ^b   Fleiszer, David M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROCEDURES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FORMATIVE FEEDBACK; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84941636226     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2014.993951     Document Type: Article

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