eLearning resources to supplement postgraduate neurosurgery training

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 325-337

  Stienen, Martin N ^a   Schaller, Karl ^b   Cock, Hannah ^c   Lisnic, Vitalie ^d   Regli, Luca ^a   Thomson, Simon ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY NICOLAE TESTEMITANU   (Moldova)

^e LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; eLearning; Electronic learning resource; Internet; Neurosurgery; New media; Postgraduate training; Resident training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB SATISFACTION; LEADERSHIP; LEARNING; MEDLINE; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; NEUROSURGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; META ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; TEACHING;

COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; NEUROSURGERY;

EID: 85002142033     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-016-3042-7     Document Type: Article

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