A problem-based approach to clinical education in dietetics.
Developing the clinical skills and knowledge of dietetic students provides a challenge for both universities and health care agencies. Deakin University has recently adopted a group learning model using problem-based learning to deliver the clinical component of the Master of Nutrition and Dietetics...
| Published in: | Nutrition & Dietetics Vol. 59; no. 1; pp. 23 - 29 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2002
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