Offering an American Graduate Medical HIV Course to Health Care Workers in Resource-Limited Settings via the Internet

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Chung, Michael H ^a   Severynen, Anneleen O ^a   Hals, Matthew P ^a   Harrington, Robert D ^a   Spach, David H ^a   Kim, H Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURSE EVALUATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FACULTY PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTERNET; NURSE; NURSING EDUCATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHYSICIAN; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

CURRICULUM; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MEDICINE; INTERNET; VIROLOGY;

EID: 84871453964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052663     Document Type: Article

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