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¹Sarah J. Garvick is an associate program director in the PA program at Wake Forest School of Medicine's Boone, N.C., campus. Suzanne Reich is program director in the PA program at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.

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