Medical Spanish curriculum: a five-year retrospective analysis of physician assistant student performance.
Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of medical Spanish instruction by assessing Spanish language comprehension in physician assistant (PA) education. Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of Spanish pretest and posttest performance for all PA students who completed the University ofTexas...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Physician Assistant Education (Physician Assistant Education Association) Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 14 - 17 |
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Physician Assistant Education Association
2009
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