Physician lifelong learning: Conceptualization, measurement, and correlates in full-time clinicians and academic clinicians

Handbook of Lifelong Learning Developments

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 37-78

  Hojat, Mohammadreza ^a   Veloski, J Jon ^a   Gonnella, Joseph S ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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