A workshop on leadership for MD/PhD students

Erin J Ciampa1, Aubrey A Hunt, Kyle O Arneson

  • 1Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA.

Medical Education Online
|August 16, 2011
PubMed

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