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News from the CDC: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and standardized patient videos — a novel approach to educating medical students about CFS

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Acknowledgments

The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The authors wish to acknowledge the Center for the Advancement of Professional Education (CAPE) at the University of Colorado for their guidance and production of the standardized patient videos.

This research was supported in part by an appointment to the Research Participation Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education through an interagency agreement between the US Department of Energy and CDC.

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  1. Chronic Viral Diseases Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology,, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd., MS-G41, Atlanta, GA, 30333, USA

    Dana J Brimmer PhD, MPH, Charlotte Campbell MPH, Kathleen Bonner MPH & Jin-Mann Lin PhD

  2. McKing Consulting Corporation, 2900 Chamblee Tucker Road Building 10, Suite 100, Atlanta, GA, 30341, USA

    Dana J Brimmer PhD, MPH

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DB, CC, KB, and JL participated in the conception and design of the paper and contributed to the drafting and revising of the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

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Brimmer, D.J., Campbell, C., Bonner, K. et al. News from the CDC: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and standardized patient videos — a novel approach to educating medical students about CFS. Behav. Med. Pract. Policy Res. 3, 338–339 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13142-013-0229-9

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