International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 2 , Pages 62-68 , June 2008

Educating osteopaths to be researchers – What role should research methods and statistics have in an undergraduate curriculum?

Received 14 January 2008 ,Accepted 3 March 2008.

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☆ This work was supported in part by a grant (No. K24AT002422) from the National Institutes of Health.

PII: S1746-0689(08)00029-1

doi: 10.1016/j.ijosm.2008.03.003

International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine
Volume 11, Issue 2 , Pages 62-68 , June 2008

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