Trends in national licensing examinations in medicine.
Context As a contribution to this special issue commemorating the journal's 50th volume, this paper seeks to explore directions for national licensing examinations ( NLEs) in medicine. Increases in the numbers of new medical schools and the mobility of doctors across national borders mean that NLEs...
| Publicado en: | Medical Education Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 101 - 115 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2016
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