Validity of MCAT scores for predicting clerkship performance of medical students grouped by sex and Ethnicity

Academic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 1999, Pages s41-s44

  Huff, Kristen L ^a   Koenig, Judith A ^a   Treptau, Michelle M ^a   Sircei, Stephen G ^a  

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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; CLINICAL EDUCATION; COMPETENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL STUDENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032716995     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199910000-00035     Document Type: Article

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