Scientific writing training for academic physicians of diverse language backgrounds

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 505-510

  Cameron, Carrie ^a   Deming, Stephanie P ^a   Notzon, Beth ^a   Cantor, Scott B ^a   Broglio, Kristine R ^a   Pagel, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREER; EDITOR; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SKILL; TRAINING; UNITED STATES; WRITING; WRITTEN LANGUAGE; ARTICLE; CURRICULUM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; PUBLISHING;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE ARTS; PUBLISHING; TEXAS; WRITING;

EID: 65249182053     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31819a7e6d     Document Type: Review

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