Undergraduate medical education: present state and future needs.
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Undergraduate medical education: present state and future needs.
There is a growing concern that all is not well with undergraduate medical education. Indeed, representatives of 67 countries at the world conference on medical education in 1988 were in little doubt that medical education is in a poor state.' Furthermore, one medical dean has referred to a crisis in undergraduate education,2 and some of the shortcomings of medical education have been referred ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.303.6793.41