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Reliability of a science admission test (HAM-Nat) at Hamburg medical school

Johanna Hissbach1, Dietrich Klusmann, Wolfgang Hampe

  • 1Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Institut für Biochemie und molekulare Zellbiologie, Hamburg, Deutschland.

GMS Zeitschrift Fur Medizinische Ausbildung
|August 26, 2011
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Keywords:
Admission testExternal validityReliabilityStudent selection medical school

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