Tablet computer enhanced training improves internal medicine exam performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Baumgart, Daniel C ^a   Wende, Ilja ^a   Grittner, Ulrike ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERSONAL COMPUTER; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; DEVICES; EDUCATION; EVALUATION STUDY; GERMANY; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; TEACHING;

ADULT; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85016746246     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0172827     Document Type: Article

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