What might we be saying to potential applicants to medical school? Discourses of excellence, equity, and diversity on the Web sites of Canada's 17 medical schools

Academic Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1323-1329

  Razack, Saleem ^a   Maguire, Mary ^a   Hodges, Brian ^b   Steinert, Yvonne ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84867011427     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318267663a     Document Type: Article

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