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Teaching on the run tips 6: determining competence

Fiona R Lake and Jeffrey M Hamdorf
Med J Aust 2004; 181 (9): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06410.x
Published online: 1 November 2004

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  • University of Western Australia, First Floor N Block, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, WA.


Correspondence: 

Acknowledgements: 

We would like to thank the teachers and participants in Teaching on the Run courses for their input and the Medical Training Review Panel, Australian Department of Health and Ageing, for funding support.

Competing interests:

None identified.

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