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Twelve Tips

Twelve tips to avoid ethical pitfalls when recruiting students as subjects in medical education research

Elisabeth BoileauDepartment of Family and Emergency Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada; Correspondence[email protected]
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Johane PatenaudeDepartment of Surgery, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-6721-9697
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Christina St-OngeDepartment of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, CanadaORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-5313-0456
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Pages 20-25 | Published online: 30 Jul 2017

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