How do GPs want to learn in the digital era?

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 399-402

  Yee, Melissa ^a   Simpson Young, Virginia ^b   Paton, Rebecca ^c   Zuo, Yeqin ^c  

^a National Survey Lead NPS Medicinewise Evaluation   (Australia)

^b Eclecta Research   (Australia)

^c NPS Medicinewise Evaluation   (Australia)

Author keywords

Continuing; Education; Empirical research; General practice; Medical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902009557     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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