The good-hearted and the clever: Clinical medicine at the bottom of the barrel of science

Journal of Medicine and the Person

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 103-111

  Tesio, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biomedical model; Clinical model; Medical education; Research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857170684     PISSN: 20359411     EISSN: 20363877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12682-010-0063-5     Document Type: Review

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