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Widening access by changing the criteria for selecting medical students
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Objective To determine whether new programmes developed to widen access to medicine in the United Kingdom have produced more diverse student
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h1108