Challenges and change in medical training:  the Australian Curriculum Framework for Junior Doctors

Van Der Weyden, Martin B

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb00930.x

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A giant step forward, but more needs to be done

To have lived through a revolution, to have seen a new birth of science, a new dispensation of health, reorganized medical schools, remodeled hospitals, a new outlook for humanity, is not given to every generation.1

The Medical Journal of Australia, Sydney, NSW.

Correspondence: medjaust@ampco.com.au

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