Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 49, Issue 6 , Pages 1514-1519 , June 2009

Trends in workforce diversity in vascular surgery programs in the United States

Presented at the 2008 Vascular Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, June 5-8, 2008.

Received 9 October 2008 ,Accepted 2 February 2009.

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 This is study was in part supported by CTSA NIH Grant UL1-RR024982.

 Competition of interest: none.

PII: S0741-5214(09)00230-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.02.003

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 49, Issue 6 , Pages 1514-1519 , June 2009

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