[Evaluation of selected management skills of senior students in a four-year program]
Curationis
|June 1, 1995
Abstract:
Due to the composition of the curriculum it is not possible to allocate final year students in the four year course to hospital wards where they can practise management tasks. In order to overcome this difficulty to a limited degree, a plan was devised to give these students the opportunity of practising selected management tasks in their free time and an instrument was developed to evaluate their knowledge of and insight into these tasks. The instrument was used to evaluate the selected management skills of 60 fourth year students. The method and results of the project are described in this article.
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