General practice training and virtual communities of practice - A review of the literature

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Barnett, Stephen ^a   Jones, Sandra C ^a   Bennett, Sue ^a   Iverson, Don ^a   Bonney, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; General practice; Training

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; COOPERATION; EDUCATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERNET; REVIEW; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WORKPLACE;

COMMUNITY NETWORKS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84865304918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-13-87     Document Type: Review

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