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Original Articles

Building family medicine postgraduate training in Jamaica: overcoming challenges in a resource-limited setting

, DM (Family Medicine) MPH (Family Medicine Programme Coordinator) , , BSc DM (Family Medicine) Masters of Arts (Distance Education) (Lecturer in Family Medicine) , , BSc (Hons) Postgrad Diploma (Family Medicine) (Lecturer in Community Health) , , MBBS MPH (Retired Lecturer in Family Medicine) , , MBBS MPH (Lecturer in Public Health) & , CD BA MBBS DPH PhD (Professor of Public Health and Ageing)
Pages 16-17 | Accepted 01 Sep 2014, Published online: 07 Oct 2015

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