Educating physicians in evidence based medicine: current practices and curricular strategies

Perspectives on Medical Education

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 358-361

  Maggio, Lauren A ^a  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Evidence based medicine; Information storage and retrieval; Undergraduate medical education

Indexed keywords

EID: 85038102764     PISSN: 22122761     EISSN: 2212277X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40037-016-0301-5     Document Type: Article

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