Clinical Training-‘The Inconvenient Truths’
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Inconvenient truths about effective clinical teaching.
I’ve been teaching clinical medicine for more than 30 years but it seems to be getting harder, not easier. Conventional wisdom in the USA holds that the problem is time and money (or, more precisely: time is money). Hospitalised patients, discharged before doctors can get to know them, are sicker and quicker today. Outpatient teaching is no less awkward, 10-minute offi ce visits and outdated Me...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1445-937X
DOI: 10.1002/j.2055-2335.2007.tb00736.x