Perception of the usability and implementation of a metacognitive mnemonic to check cognitive errors in clinical setting

• Main Authors: Chew, Keng Sheng, Van Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G, Durning, Steven J.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BMC Medical Education 2019
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/29614/1/Keng%20Sheng%20Chew.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/29614/; https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12909-018-1451-4

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