The role of academic health centers and their partners in reconfiguring and retooling the existing workforce to practice in a transformed health system

Academic Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1812-1816

  Fraher, Erin P ^a   Ricketts, Thomas C ^b   Lefebvre, Ann ^a   Newton, Warren P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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EID: 84889087137     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000024     Document Type: Review

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