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Published on: July 31, 2007

[An innovational model of elite tuition of students motivated towards scientific research activity]

S V Grachev, L V Mikheeva, Iu A Fadeev

    Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk
    |March 29, 2008
    PubMed

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