Addressing the Maintenance of Certification challenge: The College of American Pathologists response

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 666-675

  Hammond, M Elizabeth H ^a,b   Filling, Constance M ^b   Neumann, Ann R ^b   Homburger, Henry A ^b,c  

^a LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Autopsy Comm Coll Amer P   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; COMPETENCE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; LEARNING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPECIALTY BOARDS;

EID: 18144365470     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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