Deficiency areas in decision making in undergraduate medical students

Advances in Medical Education and Practice

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages 223-227

  Klemenc Ketis, Zalika ^a,b   Kersnik, Janko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b Medical School of Ljubljana   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Decision making; Family medicine; Undergraduate medical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944072473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11797258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/AMEP.S64920     Document Type: Article

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