Surgical mentoring: Building tomorrow's leaders

Surgical Mentoring: Building Tomorrow's Leaders

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-170

  Rombeau, John ^a   Goldberg, Amy ^a   Loveland Jones, Catherine ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7191-3     Document Type: Book

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