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Stand Up and Be Counted: Measuring and Mapping the Rheumatology Workforce in Canada

Claire E.H. Barber, Lauren Jewett, Elizabeth M. Badley, Diane Lacaille, Alfred Cividino, Vandana Ahluwalia, Henry Averns, Cory Baillie, Janet Ellsworth, Janet Pope, Deborah Levy, Christine Charnock, Claire McGowan, J. Carter Thorne, Cheryl Barnabe, Michel Zummer, Katie Lundon, Robert S. McDougall, John G. Thomson, Elaine A. Yacyshyn, Dianne Mosher, Julie Brophy, Thanu Nadarajah Ruban and Deborah A. Marshall
The Journal of Rheumatology February 2017, 44 (2) 248-257; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.160621

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RHEUMATOLOGIST
WORKFORCE
PEDIATRIC RHEUMATOLOGIST
ADULT RHEUMATOLOGIST

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