Continuing medical education in Brazil: What about obstetricians and gynecologists?

Sao Paulo Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-10

  Sass, Nelson ^a   Torloni, Maria Regina ^a   de Oliveira Soares, Bernardo Garcia ^b   Atallah, Álvaro Nagib ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Centro de Estudos de Saude Baseada em Evidencias e Avaliacao Tecnologica em Saude   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Continuing medical education; Evidence based medicine; Gynecology; Medical education; Obstetrics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMPETENCE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GYNECOLOGY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; SELF EVALUATION;

EID: 17644385173     PISSN: 15163180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-31802005000100002     Document Type: Article

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