Crisis in critical care: Training and certifying future intensivists

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-110

  Coursin, Douglas B ^a,d   Barrett, Hannah ^b   Bion, Julian F ^b   Cohen, Neal H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d B6/319 UW CSC ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANESTHESIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CERTIFICATION; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; CRITICAL CARE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; INTENSIVE CARE;

EID: 33646022281     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aco.0000192766.04582.39     Document Type: Editorial

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