COGME's 16th report to congress: Too many physicians could be worse than wasted

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 268-270

  Phillips Jr , Robert L ^a   Dodoo, Martey ^a   Jaén, Carlos R ^b   Green, Larry A ^a  

^a ROBERT GRAHAM CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

COGME; Delivery of health care; Education, medical, graduate; Health manpower; Health planning organizations; Health services research; Physicians, family workforce

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; PHYSICIAN; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; UNITED STATES;

HEALTH MANPOWER; PHYSICIANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 20444422906     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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