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The relationship between second-year medical students' OSCE scores and USMLE Step 1 scores

Steven R. Simon Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Avenue, Sixth Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Kevin Volkan Departments of Education and Psychology, California State University at Channel Islands
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Claus Hamann Geriatric Medicine Unit of Massachusetts General Hospital
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Carol Duffey Office of the Registrar, Harvard Medical School
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Suzanne W. Fletcher Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Pages 535-539 | Published online: 03 Jul 2009

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