The department of veterans affairs national quality scholars fellowship program: Experience from 10 years of training quality scholars

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1741-1748

  Splaine, Mark E ^a   Ogrinc, Greg ^b,c,d   Gilman, Stuart C ^e   Aron, David C ^a,f   Estrada, Carlos A ^b,g   Rosenthal, Gary E ^b,h   Lee, Sei ^i,j   Dittus, Robert S ^b,k   Batalden, Paul B ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e VA Office of Academic Affiliations   (United States)

^f LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

ⁱ VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 73449117976     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181bfdcef     Document Type: Review

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