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Stuck in Graduate Medical Education Traffic? Teaching Health Centers Are Family Medicine's High-Occupancy-Vehicle Lane

Joseph W. Gravel
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine March 2019, 32 (2) 130-133; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2019.02.190010
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