Innovating undergraduate pathology education through public engagement.
The trends in modern undergraduate medical education focus on a patient-centred approach through problem-based learning over the traditional modular curriculum. Integrating pathology into this style of learning has resulted in the dilution of core scientific principles which may have contributed to...
| Publicado en: | Virchows Archiv: European Journal of Pathology Vol. 472; no. 5; pp. 853 - 864 |
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Springer Nature
May2018
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