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Medical education and the training of cardiothoracic surgeons in the United States of America

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  1. Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, 840 S. Wood St. Suite 417 CSB, 60612, Chicago, IL, USA

    Alexander S. Geha

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Read at the Fifty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Thoracic Surgery, Special Program, Sapporo, October 20–22, 2004.

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Geha, A.S. Medical education and the training of cardiothoracic surgeons in the United States of America. Jpn J Thorac Caridovasc Surg 53, 320–323 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-005-0137-0

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