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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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 Jul. 17];14(4):144-`145. Available from: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cmej/article/view/74478

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