Chairing the internal medicine department- analysis of current state and future trends in Israel

Professional skills and academic records of the highest degree are essential requirements for the chairmanship of internal medicine departments. Whether the new generation and future successors of Israeli chairmen is endowed with these attributes is not known. To determine whether there is a lack of...

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Published in:Israel journal of health policy research 2018-12, Vol.7 (1), p.73-73, Article 73
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Health policy
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