Making the most of learning in the operating theatre: student strategies and curricular initiatives.
BACKGROUND: Students in medical programmes around the world are required to attend with their patient in the operating theatre, yet little is known about this area of medical education. Most of the published literature on the operating theatre is normative in character, written from the perspective...
| Publicado en: | Medical Education Vol. 37; no. 8; pp. 680 - 689 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2003
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