Perspective: Physician education: A promising strategy to prevent adolescent suicide

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 342-347

  Taliaferro, Lindsay A ^b   Borowsky, Iris Wagman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 79952187036     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31820984ad     Document Type: Article

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