Emergency medicine in the Netherlands, the necessity for changing the system: results from two questionnaires

@article{vanGeloven2003EmergencyMI,
  title={Emergency medicine in the Netherlands, the necessity for changing the system: results from two questionnaires},
  author={Anna AW. van Geloven and Jan S. K. Luitse and Maarten P. Simons and Beijtje S Volker and Marjos J Verbeek and Hugh Obertop},
  journal={European Journal of Emergency Medicine},
  year={2003},
  volume={10},
  pages={318-322},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:24476623}
}
A majority of the Emergency Departments are now staffed by emergency physicians instead of surgical residents, and developing specific training programmes for emergency physicians should be a priority for the Netherlands in the future.
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