What should medical students do to choose their specialty?
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Pan African Medical Journal. 2015; 22:282 doi:10.11604/pamj.2015.22.282.7955 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/22/282/full/ © Omar Aboshady et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Pan African medical journal
دوره 22 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015