Perspective: Leveraging the health care workforce: What do we need and what educational system will get us there?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1448-1453

  Garson, Arthur ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 80255131366     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318230588b     Document Type: Article

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