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Foreign Medical Graduates and the Royal College Examination: Opinions of Residents and Examiners

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Siva Appavoo MD (part of the Postgraduate Program), Pierre Leichner MD (Leichner is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Postgraduate Education) & Dan Harper Phd (Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Research and Evaluation in Psychiatry)

  2. Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Canada

    Dan Harper Phd (Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Research and Evaluation in Psychiatry)

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Acknowledgements to Mr. Kuldip Maini for statistical analysis.

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Appavoo, S., Leichner, P. & Harper, D. Foreign Medical Graduates and the Royal College Examination: Opinions of Residents and Examiners. Acad Psychiatry 7, 197–201 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399886

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