Clinical experience and minority group students: A perspective from Harvard Medical School

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 362, Issue , 1999, Pages 78-84

  Poussaint, Alvin F ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; COMPETENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MINORITY GROUP; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032912497     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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