Experience with faculty supervision of an electronic resident sign-out system
Christopher Nabors1, Stephen J Peterson, Wei-Nchih Lee
1Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA. christopher_nabors@nymc.edu
The American Journal of Medicine
|April 6, 2010
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