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Teaching on the run tips 7: effective use of questions

Fiona R Lake, Alistair W Vickery and Gerard Ryan
Med J Aust 2005; 182 (3): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2005.tb06615.x
Published online: 7 February 2005

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  • 1 Education Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA.
  • 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, WA.


Correspondence: flake@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Acknowledgements: 

We would like to thank the teachers and participants in Teaching on the Run courses for their input, and the Medical Training Review Panel, Australian Department of Health and Ageing, for funding support.

Competing interests:

None identified.

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