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Undergraduate Medical Education Reform in Viet Nam for a Primary Health Care Workforce

Annals of Global Health
Volume 88 (2022): Issue 1
By: David B. Duong,  Tuan A. Nguyen,  Kristen Goodell,  Nora Y. Osman,  Tam M. Nguyen,  Van-Anh T. Pham,  Loan T. Vu,  Hong-Anh T. Vu,  Lisa A. Cosimi,  Todd Pollack and  Barbara Gottlieb  
Open Access
|Nov 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3755 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
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Language: English
Submitted on: Feb 23, 2022
Accepted on: Oct 17, 2022
Published on: Nov 9, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
primary health care,
medical education,
health workforce,
collaboration,
partnerships

© 2022 David B. Duong, Tuan A. Nguyen, Kristen Goodell, Nora Y. Osman, Tam M. Nguyen, Van-Anh T. Pham, Loan T. Vu, Hong-Anh T. Vu, Lisa A. Cosimi, Todd Pollack, Barbara Gottlieb, published by Ubiquity Press
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