Are Canadian General Internal Medicine training program graduates well prepared for their future careers?

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Card, Sharon E ^a   Snell, Linda ^b   O'Brien, Brian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; GENERAL PRACTICE; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAINING; ADULT; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE LOCATION; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33751514951     PISSN: 14726920     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-6-56     Document Type: Article

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