Emergency medicine residency training in electrocardiogram interpretation

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 738-742

  Ginde, Adit A ^a   Char, Douglas M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Competency; Curriculum; Electrocardiogram; Emergency medicine; Residency; Training

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; TEACHING;

EID: 0037480693     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.7.738     Document Type: Article

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