The American Board of Obesity Medicine: Five-year report

Obesity

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 982-984

  Kushner, Robert F ^a   Brittan, Dana ^b   Cleek, John ^c   Hes, Dyan ^d   English, Wayne ^c   Kahan, Scott ^e   Aronne, Louis J ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b American Board of Obesity Medicine   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN BOARD OF OBESITY MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BARIATRICS; CERTIFICATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; INTERNAL MEDICINE; JOB EXPERIENCE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OBSTETRICS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

EID: 85019889206     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.21828     Document Type: Article

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