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  1. Department of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas, 78284-7792, USA

    Harry W. Martin PH.D., Martin B. Giffen M.D. & Thomas J. Prihoda PH.D.

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Appreciation is expressed to James Neff, Stephen Shanfield, Charles Bowden, and C.A. McMahan for helpful comments on an early draft of this paper, and to Debra Goode and Virginia Vlieger for their kind assistance in collecting the data.

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Martin, H.W., Giffen, M.B. & Prihoda, T.J. Quality of Psychiatric Undergraduate Education and Career Choice. Acad Psychiatry 12, 309–320 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399992

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