Perspective: Environment, biodiversity, and the education of the physician of the future

Academic Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 168-172

  Gómez, Andrés ^a   Balsari, Satchit ^b,c   Nusbaum, Julie ^b,d   Heerboth, Aaron ^e   Lemery, Jay ^f  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Wilderness Medical Society   (United States)

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EID: 84873408850     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31827bfbeb     Document Type: Review

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