Certification and recertification in medicine: Self-improvement, self- delusion, or self-strangulation?

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 579-590

  Weisse, Allen B ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; COMPETENCE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; CURRICULUM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031781409     PISSN: 00315982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.1998.0045     Document Type: Review

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