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The Competency of Competencies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Karen Hein
Karen Hein*
Affiliation:
Former President, William T. Grant Foundation; Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York, USA
*
khein@hughes.net
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Editorial Comments
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 25 , Issue 5 , October 2010 , pp. 396 - 397
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2010

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