Selecting residents for a surgical residency: Are we doing what we say we are doing?

Current Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 42-46

  Scott Conner, Carol E H ^a,b   Rhodes, Robert S ^a,b   Aggarwal, Ajay K ^a,b   David Bass, J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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