Medical education, specialty training, and emergency medicine: when the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Emergencias

Servicio de Urgencias, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, España. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, España. Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau, Barcelona, España.

Published: August 2022

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