Understanding the needs and concerns of senior faculty in academic medicine: Building strategies to maintain this critical resource

Academic Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1927-1933

  Stearns, Jeffrey ^a   Everard, Kelly M ^b   Gjerde, Craig L ^a   Stearns, Marjorie ^a   Shore, William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84889078755     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000010     Document Type: Article

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