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Wilderness medicine opportunities in Canada do exist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Gwynn Curran-Sills
Gwynn Curran-Sills*
Affiliation:
Family Medicine and Primary Care Research Office, Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
*
Family Medicine and Primary Care Research Office, University of Calgary, G102 Health Sciences Centre, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB T2N 4N1; gcurrans@ucalgary.ca

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Keywords

Canadaeducational opportunitieswilderness medicine
Type
Resident Issues
Information
Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , May 2013 , pp. 182 - 184
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2013

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