Facilitating Scholarly Writing in Academic Medicine: Lessons Learned from a Collaborative Peer Mentoring Program

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 64-68

  Pololi, Linda ^a,b,f   Knight, Sharon ^c   Dunn, Kathleen ^d,e  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e US Civ Aff Psychol O   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Faculty development; Mentoring; Scholarship; Writing

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; EXPERIENCE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SKILL; WRITING;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; WRITING;

EID: 1242314698     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.21143.x     Document Type: Review

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