Perspective: Adopting an asset bundles model to support and advance minority students' careers in academic medicine and the scientific pipeline

Academic Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1488-1495

  Johnson, Japera ^a   Bozeman, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 84869888746     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31826d5a8d     Document Type: Article

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