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Professionalism, Communities of Practice, and Medicine’s Social Contract

Richard L. Cruess and Sylvia R. Cruess
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine September 2020, 33 (Supplement) S50-S56; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2020.S1.190417
Richard L. Cruess
From the Institute for Health Sciences Education, Lady Meredith House, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
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vol. 33 no. Supplement S50-S56
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2020.S1.190417
PubMed 
32928951

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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1557-2625
Online ISSN 
1558-7118
History 
  • Received for publication November 13, 2019
  • Revision received February 17, 2020
  • Accepted for publication February 19, 2020
  • Published online September 14, 2020.

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  1. Richard L. Cruess, MD and
  2. Sylvia R. Cruess, MD
  1. From the Institute for Health Sciences Education, Lady Meredith House, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
  1. Corresponding author: Richard L. Cruess, MD, Institute for Health Sciences Education, Lady Meredith House, McGill University, 1110 Pine Ave. W., Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1A3 Canada (E-mail: richard.cruess{at}mcgill.ca).
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