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Volume 198, Issue 5 , Pages 593-595 , November 2009

AVAS Best Clinical Resident Award (Tied): Fate of non-designated preliminary general surgery residents seeking a categorical residency position

Peter S. Yoo, M.D.
- Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Robert Kozol, M.D.
- Department of Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
Patricia Reilly
- Department of Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
John H. Seashore, M.D.
- Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Andrew Duffy, M.D.
- Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Rajiv Chandawarkar, M.D.
- Department of Surgery, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT, USA
Walter E. Longo, M.D.
- Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
- Corresponding author. Tel.: 203-785-2616; fax: 203-785-2615

Received 5 May 2009 ,Revised 2 July 2009

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