Teaching psychomotor skills in the twenty-first century: Revisiting and reviewing instructional approaches through the lens of contemporary literature

Medical Teacher

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1056-1063

  Nicholls, Delwyn ^a,b   Sweet, Linda ^a   Muller, Amanda ^a   Hyett, Jon ^c,d  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Sydney Ultrasound for Women   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SKILL RETENTION; TEACHING; COGNITION; CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PROCEDURES; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COGNITION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FORMATIVE FEEDBACK; HUMANS; LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT, VERBAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

EID: 84977260074     PISSN: 0142159X     EISSN: 1466187X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0142159X.2016.1150984     Document Type: Article

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