Writing Case Reports: Teaching and Tuition Techniques, and the Improvement of Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning

Authors

  • Yosuke Kakisaka Department of Epileptology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
  • Mayu Fujikawa Department of Epileptology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
  • Schuyler Gaillard Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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https://doi.org/10.5195/ijms.2016.157

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Medical education

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Author Biography

Yosuke Kakisaka, Department of Epileptology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

Yosuke Kakisaka is a pediatrician and epileptologist at Tohoku

University Graduate School of Medicine in Sendai, Japan.

References

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2016-12-26

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Kakisaka, Y., Fujikawa, M., & Gaillard, S. (2016). Writing Case Reports: Teaching and Tuition Techniques, and the Improvement of Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning. International Journal of Medical Students, 4(3), 88–90. https://doi.org/10.5195/ijms.2016.157

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Vol. 4 No. 3 (2016)

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