The Nursing Home as a Site for Teaching Medical Students.

Wiener, Myra; Shamaskin, Ann

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Publication Date: 1990

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The Nursing Home as a Site for Teaching Medical Students.

Wiener, Myra; Shamaskin, Ann

Academic Medicine, v65 n6 p412-14 Jun 1990

Responses to questionnaires were compared between 106 students in nursing homes with those of 171 students in hospitals to evaluate interview and physical examination instruction for medical students. The nursing home was assessed as an appropriate alternative site for teaching the medical interview and physical diagnosis. (GLR)

Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Internal Medicine, Interviews, Medical Evaluation, Medical Students, Nursing Homes, Physical Examinations, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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