Seven years of the field epidemiology training programme (FETP) at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India: an internal evaluation

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bhatnagar, Tarun ^a   Gupte, Mohan D ^a   Hutin, Yvan J ^a,b   Kaur, Prabhdeep ^a   Kumaraswami, Vasanthapuram ^a   Manickam, Ponnaiah ^a   Murhekar, Manoj ^a   Ramachandran, Vidya ^a   Ramakrishnan, Ramachandran ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b WHO India Country Office   (India)

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EID: 84866703063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-10-36     Document Type: Article

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