How prevalent are potentially illegal questions during residency interviews

Academic Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1116-1121

  Gene Hern, H ^a   Alter, Harrison J ^b   Wills, Charlotte P ^a,b   Snoey, Eric R ^a,b   Simon, Barry C ^a,b  

^a ALAMEDA COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84882450590     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318299eecc     Document Type: Article

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