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Addicted to Learning: Can We Teach as Well (& Enthrallingly!) as Fortnite?

Philip Seo, MD, MHS  |  Issue: April 2019  |  April 15, 2019


Philip Seo, MD, MHSPhilip Seo, MD, MHS, is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. He is director of both the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center and the Johns Hopkins Rheumatology Fellowship Program.

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