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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

Rural generalism: the New Zealand way

Garry Nixon
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1 Division of Health Sciences; Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand

Correspondence to: Gary Nixon, Division of Health Sciences; Director Rural Postgraduate Programme, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, New Zealand. Email: garry.nixon@otago.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 10(2) 102-105 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC18025
Published: 19 June 2018

Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2018.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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