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Peer reviewedBlackwell, Thomas A.; And Others – Academic Medicine, 1991
A study investigated whether the more efficiently graded extended-matching questions were equivalent to short-answer questions in evaluating medical students' (n=98) ability to elicit physical findings and generate diagnoses and treatment plans, using standardized-patient examinations. The differences found in the two question types did not favor…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Higher Education, Medical Education, Patients
