Faculty development for foreign teachers of family medicine

Family Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 435-438

  Thompson, Robert ^a,b   Spann, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b First Choice Community Healthcare   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY MEDICINE; FOREIGN WORKER; HUMAN; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TEACHER; TRAINING; WORKSHOP;

FACULTY, MEDICAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LATIN AMERICA; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 0031007649     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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