Is HINARI appropriate for medical students in the developing world?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 406-408

  Van Essen, Caleb ^a   Cartledge, Peter ^b   Kyamanywa, Patrick ^c   Manirakiza, Achille ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

Africa; Information dissemination; Literature; Medical; Publications; Students

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; NOTE; RWANDA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; CURRICULUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; LIBRARIES, DIGITAL; RWANDA; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEXTBOOKS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84859003570     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02938.x     Document Type: Note

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