Differences in generalist and specialist problem solving: Conflict or complimentary purposes?

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 422-427

  Al Ghamdi, Mohamed A ^a   Al Shehri, Ali M ^b  

^a Fam and Community Medicine Program

^b Primary Health Care   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Consultation; Generalist and specialist differences; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346031720     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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