Expanding primary care-based medical education:  a renaissance of general practice?

Van Der Weyden, Martin B

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01139.x

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The time to make it happen is long overdue

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

The Medical Journal of Australia, Sydney, NSW.

Correspondence: medjaust@ampco.com.au

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