Socio-demographic and academic correlates of clinical reasoning in a dental school in South Africa

European Journal of Dental Education

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 58-65

  Postma, T C ^a   White, J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

case studies; clinical reasoning; dental eductaion; reading ability; scaffolding; South Africa

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL EDUCATION; DENTAL STUDENT; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; READING; SOUTH AFRICA; TEACHING; TREATMENT PLANNING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, DENTAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SCHOOLS, DENTAL; SOUTH AFRICA; STUDENTS, DENTAL; TEACHING;

EID: 84949973468     PISSN: 13965883     EISSN: 16000579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eje.12179     Document Type: Article

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