Knowledge syntheses in medical education: Demystifying scoping reviews

Academic Medicine

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 161-166

  Thomas, Aliki ^a,b,c   Lubarsky, Stuart ^b   Durning, Steven J ^d   Young, Meredith E ^b,e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation   (Canada)

^d Department of Anatomy Western   (United States)

^e Department of Medicine ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LITERATURE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; TEACHING;

DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; TEACHING;

EID: 84992336051     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001452     Document Type: Review

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