Keeping Our Promise - Supporting Trainees from Groups That Are Underrepresented in Medicine

Monica B Vela1, Marshall H Chin1, Monica E Peek1

  • 1From the Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.B.V., M.H.C., M.E.P.), the Pritzker School of Medicine (M.B.V.), the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research (M.H.C., M.E.P.), the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (M.B.V, M.E.P.), and the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics (M.H.C., M.E.P.), University of Chicago, Chicago.

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