Specialization, subspecialization, and subsubspecialization in internal medicine

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1169-1173

  Cassel, Christine K ^a   Reuben, David B ^a,b  

^a AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; KNOWLEDGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKILL; SPECIALIZATION; TRAINING;

EID: 79953182747     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsb1012647     Document Type: Short Survey

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