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Feb 2022
45m 14s

The Trainees Who Don’t Fit the Med Ed Mi...

Dave Etler and the Students of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
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Medical schools' mission is to create doctors that treat patients. In that context, the options provided for trainees who don't see that as their own mission may be limited. However, those options do exist--should schools acknowledge them? Should schools even promote those options to their students? And listener Nicole asks what prerequisites she can take a ... Show More
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