Honorary authorship in postgraduate medical training

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 91, Issue 1079, 2015, Pages 501-507

  Rajasekaran, Sathish ^a,b   Lo, Alto ^b   Aly, Abdel Rahman ^b   Ashworth, Nigel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HONORARY AUTHORSHIP; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STAFF; PEER REVIEW; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAINING; WRITING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLISHING;

AUTHORSHIP; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL POLICIES; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; PUBLISHING; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84940900291     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2015-133493     Document Type: Article

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