Communicator and collaborator - a Finnish national repeated cross-sectional survey of the two CanMEDS competencies by

Heli Halava1,2, Piitu Parmanne3, Minna Kaila3

  • 1University of Turku, Turku, Finland. heli.halava@utu.fi.

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