Effect of supervised students' involvement on diagnostic accuracy in hospitalized medical patients--a prospective controlled study.

BACKGROUND: During internships most medical students engage in history taking and physical examination during evaluation of hospitalized patients. However, the students' ability for pattern recognition is not as developed as in medical experts and complete history taking is often not repeated b...

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Main Authors: Dorothea Adelheid Herter, Robert Wagner, Friederike Holderried, Yelena Fenik, Reimer Riessen, Peter Weyrich, Nora Celebi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3439423?pdf=render