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Race/Ethnicity in Medical Education: An Analysis of a Question Bank for Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination

Kelsey RippBrown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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Lundy BraunPathology and Laboratory Medicine and Africana Studies, Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 115-122 | Published online: 04 Jan 2017

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