Is a faculty developed pretest equivalent to pre-third year GPA or USMLE step 1 as a predictor of third-year internal medicine clerkship outcomes?

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 329-332

  Denton, Gerald D ^a,c   Durning, Steven J ^a   Wimmer, Alan P ^b   Pangaro, Louis N ^a   Hemmer, Paul A ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LICENSING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; SCORING SYSTEM; STUDENT;

EID: 9644255833     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15328015tlm1604_5     Document Type: Article

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