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Abdominal transplant fellowship: Is the current system stretching trainees thin?
Srilakshmi Atthota1, Leigh Anne Dageforde1
1Department of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
American Journal of Surgery
|January 9, 2023
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