The tension between educational equivalency and equipoise in medical education research

Family Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-6

  Egan, Mari ^a   Mainous, Arch G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; EQUIPOISE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; RESEARCH; STANDARD;

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; RESEARCH; THERAPEUTIC EQUIPOISE;

EID: 84855535729     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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