The dawning era of personalized medicine exposes a gap in medical education

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Salari, Keyan ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SHORT SURVEY; TRAINING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL MEDICINE; EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; STANDARD;

CLINICAL MEDICINE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE;

EID: 69349102026     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000138     Document Type: Short Survey

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