Perspective: The ACGME toolbox: Half empty or half full?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 787-790

  Green, Michael L ^a   Holmboe, Eric ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 77953552658     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181d737a6     Document Type: Review

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