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CAEP standards: Ivory tower emergency medicine?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Samuel G. Campbell*
Affiliation:
CAEP Standards Committee, Departments of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, and Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Centre, Halifax, NS
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Department of Emergency Medicine, QE II HSC, Dalhousie University, 3021-1796 Summer St., Halifax NS B3H 3A7; EMSGC@cdha.nshealth.ca

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Type
Editorials • Éditoriaux
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2008

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