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Mind Over Prejudice: An Implicit Bias Training in Medical Education Using Cognitive Bias Modification
1is a Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin School of Medicine, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Journal of Graduate Medical Education
|October 2, 2023
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