Does applicant personality influence multiple mini-interview performance and medical school acceptance offers?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1250-1259

  Jerant, Anthony ^a   Griffin, Erin ^b   Rainwater, Julie ^b   Henderson, Mark ^a   Sousa, Francis ^a   Bertakis, Klea D ^a   Fenton, Joshua J ^a   Franks, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84866053574     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31826102ad     Document Type: Article

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