How can physicians keep up-to-date?

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue , 1999, Pages 99-110

  Laine, Christine ^a,b   Weinberg, David S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical competence; Continuing medical education; Information services; Reading

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIAN; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; GOALS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; META-ANALYSIS; PERIODICALS; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; READING; RESEARCH; REVIEW LITERATURE;

EID: 0032980274     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.50.1.99     Document Type: Review

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