COVID-19 exposes the need for public health preventive medicine physicians: a proposal for a Gazan public health preventive medicine residency program

ZM Sabra; Saylin  Gomez; Ponn P Mahayosnand

doi:10.36834/cmej.74478

COVID-19 exposes the need for public health preventive medicine physicians: a proposal for a Gazan public health preventive medicine residency program

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ZM Sabra Islamic University of Gaza
Saylin Gomez Providence College https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3068-092X
Ponn P Mahayosnand Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8979-2806

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https://doi.org/10.36834/cmej.74478

Author Biographies

ZM Sabra, Islamic University of Gaza

ZM Sabra, Medical Student, Islamic University of Gaza, Faculty of Medicine, Gaza, Palestine

Saylin Gomez, Providence College

Saylin Gomez, Student, Providence College, RI

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2023-03-07

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Sabra Z, Gomez S, Mahayosnand PP. COVID-19 exposes the need for public health preventive medicine physicians: a proposal for a Gazan public health preventive medicine residency program. Can. Med. Ed. J [Internet]. 2023 Mar. 7 [cited 2024 Dec. 19];14(4):144-`145. Available from: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cmej/article/view/74478

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Vol. 14 No. 4 (2023)

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