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Emergency Medicine Training Programs in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

Annals of Global Health
Volume 86 (2020): Issue 1
By: Megan M. Rybarczyk,  Nicholas Ludmer,  Morgan C. Broccoli,  Sean M. Kivlehan,  Michelle Niescierenko,  Mark Bisanzo,  Keegan A. Checkett,  Shada A. Rouhani,  Andrea G. Tenner,  Heike Geduld and  Teri Reynolds  
Open Access
|Jun 2020

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