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Chapter 4 - About the Oral Boards: Format and scoring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

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Michael Cassara
Edited by
Yasuharu Okuda  and
Bret P. Nelson
Yasuharu Okuda
Affiliation:
US Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Orlando
Bret P. Nelson
Affiliation:
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York
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Emergency Medicine Oral Board Review Illustrated , pp. 26 - 36
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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