Building capacity in Clinical Epidemiology in Africa: experiences from Masters programmes.

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Published in BMC Med Educ on February 27, 2017

Authors

Taryn Young1,2, Celeste Naude3, Tania Brodovcky4, Tonya Esterhuizen3

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa. tyoung@sun.ac.za.
2: Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa. tyoung@sun.ac.za.
3: Centre for Evidence-based Health Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
4: Research Development and Support, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.

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