Exploring the Generalist-Subspecialist Interface in Internal Medicine

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 528-537

  Linzer, Mark ^a,h   Myerburg, Robert J ^b,h   Kutner, Jean S ^c,h   Wilcox, C Mel ^d,h   Oddone, Eugene ^e,h   DeHoratius, Raphael J ^f,h   Naccarelli, Gerald V ^g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h Workforce Committee of the Association of Specialty Professors (ASP)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; HYALURONIC ACID; PARACETAMOL; PREDNISONE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; ENTERITIS; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

EID: 33646931791     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.03.007     Document Type: Note

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