Enhancing primary care clerkships with virtual patients

Education for Primary Care

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 451-454

  Sobocan, Monika ^a   Klemenc Ketis, Zalika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Clinical clerkship; Distance education; Medical education; Undergraduate; Virtual patients

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EDUCATION; FAMILY MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; PATIENT CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SCIENTIST; SKILL; STUDENT; THINKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATIENT SIMULATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; TEACHING;

CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HUMANS; PATIENT SIMULATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 85008627093     PISSN: 14739879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14739879.2016.1207102     Document Type: Article

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