Increasing the supply of rural family physicians: Recent outcomes from Jefferson medical college's physician shortage area program (PSAP)

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 264-269

  Rabinowitz, Howard K ^a   Diamond, James J ^a   Markham, Fred W ^a   Santana, Abbie J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79951680539     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31820469d6     Document Type: Article

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