Improving education in medical statistics: Implementing a blended learning model in the existing curriculum

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Milic, Natasa M ^a   Trajkovic, Goran Z ^a   Bukumiric, Zoran M ^a   Cirkovic, Andja ^a   Nikolic, Ivan M ^a   Milin, Jelena S ^a   Milic, Nikola V ^a   Savic, Marko D ^a   Corac, Aleksandar M ^b   Marinkovic, Jelena M ^a   Stanisavljevic, Dejana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRI TINA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TEACHING; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TEACHING;

EID: 84959449460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148882     Document Type: Article

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