A Looming Joblessness Crisis for New Pharmacy Graduates and the Implications It Holds for the Academy

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Brown, Daniel L ^a  

^a UNC Hamner Institute for Drug Safety Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATION; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PHARMACY;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; EDUCATION, PHARMACY; HUMANS; PHARMACIES; PHARMACY;

EID: 84878976654     PISSN: 00029459     EISSN: 15536467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5688/ajpe77590     Document Type: Article

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