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  1. the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ont., Canada

    Jeffrey Turnbull MD & John MacFadyen MD

  2. the Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada

    Jean Gray MD

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As part of the In-Training project, this work was supported by the Educating Future Physicians of Ontario (EFPO) project and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

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Turnbull, J., Gray, J. & MacFadyen, J. Improving in-training evaluation programs. J GEN INTERN MED 13, 317–323 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.1998.00097.x

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