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Emergency Medicine International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 737391, 4 pages
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Research Article

Improving Knowledge and Process for International Emergency Medicine Fellowship Applicants: A Call for a Uniform Application

Gabrielle A. Jacquet,1 Jamil D. Bayram,1 William B. Ewen,2 Bhakti Hansoti,3 Steven Andescavage,4 David Price,5 Robert E. Suter,2 and Alexander Vu1

1Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
2Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern, Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
3Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
4Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA
5Department of Emergency Medicine, Gwinnett Medical Center, Lawrenceville, GA 30096, USA

Received 19 December 2012; Accepted 17 January 2013

Academic Editor: Harold K. Simon

Copyright © 2013 Gabrielle A. Jacquet et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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