A case for emergency medicine in the undergraduate medical school curriculum

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 994-998

  Russi, Christopher S ^a   Hamilton, Glenn C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CURRICULUM; DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NOTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SIMULATION; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 25144495077     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.05.028     Document Type: Editorial

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