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Further considerations on competence by design: when opportunity stops knocking
George Shorten1, Mark F Levine2
1Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia = Journal Canadien D'Anesthesie
|December 13, 2016
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