Postgraduate training in tropical and travel medicine in Australasia

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 77-79

  Leggat, Peter A ^a   Heydon, John L ^b  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DRUG COST; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MEDICAL SOCIETY; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVEL; TROPICAL MEDICINE;

EID: 3543087834     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1477-8939(03)00017-6     Document Type: Editorial

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