The medical college admission test - Toward a new balance

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 1955-1957

  Dienstag, Jules L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL COLLEGE ADMISSION TEST; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL ADMISSION; SHORT SURVEY; SKILL;

EID: 81855218121     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1110171     Document Type: Short Survey

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