Postgraduate education for Chinese medicine practitioners: A Hong Kong perspective

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Chung, Vincent Ch ^a   Law, Michelle Pm ^a   Wong, Samuel Ys ^a   Mercer, Stewart W ^b   Griffiths, Sian M ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREER MOBILITY; CHINESE MEDICINE; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HONG KONG; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; CAREER MOBILITY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HONG KONG; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE;

EID: 61849126869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-9-10     Document Type: Article

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