Developments in international emergency medicine.
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چکیده
Peter Cameron, Cherri Hobgood and Terrence Mulligan Monash University, Academic Director Emergency and Trauma Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; ACEP Section for International EM, Emergency Medicine Residency, and Department of Emergency Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
دوره 21 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009