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The impact of hospital overcrowding on postgraduate education: an emergency medicine resident's perspective through the lens of CanMEDS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Sam Sabbah*
Affiliation:
PGY-5, McGill Emergency Medicine FRCP Program, Montréal, Que.
*
3550 Jeanne-Mance, Apt. 2804, Montréal QC H2X 3P7; samsabbah@sympatico.ca

Abstract

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Type
Residents' Corner • Le coin des résidents
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2009

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