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Medical Students Actively Seek Gun Violence Education

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The authors would like to thank Marina Ibraheim and Michael Bagg, first year medical students at McGovern Medical School, for taking the initiative to organize this lecture series.

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  1. McGovern Medical School University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA

    Noha Abdel Gawad, Gregory Hestla & J. Chase Findley

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Correspondence to Noha Abdel Gawad.

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Abdel Gawad, N., Hestla, G. & Chase Findley, J. Medical Students Actively Seek Gun Violence Education. Acad Psychiatry 42, 873–874 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-018-0952-0

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