A decade of rural physician workforce outcomes for the rockford rural medical education (RMED) program, university of Illinois

Academic Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1941-1947

  MacDowell, Martin ^a   Glasser, Michael ^a   Hunsaker, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 84889094035     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000031     Document Type: Article

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