title: The role of distance learning in specialist medical training.
abstract: The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) defines distance learning (DL) as "a way of providing higher education that involves the transfer to the student's location of the materials that form the main basis of study, rather than the student moving to the location of the resource provider".
authors.affiliation: Sheffield Children's Hospital and NHS Trust, Sheffield, UK.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Davies
authors.forename: D M B
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: V
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authors.lastname: Harpin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pullan
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D020375:Education, Distance; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005246:Feedback; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D024382:Professional Role; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D006113:United Kingdom
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