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Research Article

Legal vulnerability of assessment tools

Michael Tweed Division of Medical Education, Leicester Warwick Medical SchoolCorrespondence[email protected]
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Jose Miola Faculty of Law, University of Leicester, UK
Pages 312-314 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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