Designing an evaluation framework for WFME basic standards for medical education

Medical Teacher

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 291-296

  Tackett, Sean ^a   Grant, Janet ^b   Mmari, Kristin ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Centre for Medical Education in Context (CenMEDIC)   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGIC; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MODEL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; CURRICULUM; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS;

ACCREDITATION; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84962381582     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2015.1031737     Document Type: Article

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