Core Competencies for Health Care Professionals: What Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, and Physiotherapy Share

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Sarita Verma, LLB, MD, CCFP, FCFP

Margo Paterson, PhD, MSc, OT Reg (Ont)

Jennifer Medves, RN, PhD

Dr. Verma is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Post-graduate Medical Education at the University ot Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Dr. Paterson is Associate Professor and Chair and Dr. Medves is Assistant Professor at Queen's University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Received April 20, 2005; revision accepted August 30, 2005.

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