The Sandwich Fellowship: A Subspecialty Training Model for the Developing World

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1152-1160

  Kassam, Faazil ^a,f   Damji, Karim F ^b   Kiage, Dan ^c   Carruthers, Chris ^d   Kollmann, K H Martin ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^f NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 68949194371     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181acf95c     Document Type: Article

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