Tomorrow’s Doctors, a changing profession: Reformation in the UK medical-education system

Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 242-260

  Corrigan, Oonagh ^a   Pinchen, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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