Radiography
Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages 238-245 , August 2008

Promoting independent learning by curriculum design and assessment in a taught postgraduate MRI programme

  • Gill Marshall

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Received 4 September 2006 ,Accepted 7 November 2006.

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 Presented at St Martin's College Learning and Teaching FEST 26th and 27th June 2006.

PII: S1078-8174(06)00122-2

doi: 10.1016/j.radi.2006.11.001

Radiography
Volume 14, Issue 3 , Pages 238-245 , August 2008