Creating a faculty development office in an academic pediatric hospital: challenges and successes.

Pediatrics

Office of Faculty Development and Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Published: February 2008

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