pulling back the curtain Michael Linenberger , MD
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VOLUME 03 | NUMBER 04 | MARCH 2017
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Diversity Evolution
The United States is becoming more diverse , but is the U . S . medical education system adapting quickly enough ? ASH Clinical News spoke with experts to learn more about efforts to boost the number of underrepresented minority students and faculty and foster diversity and inclusiveness in the medical education system .
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pulling back the curtain Michael Linenberger , MD
Dr . Linenberger recounts how his experiences growing up in rural Kansas and an early job as a hospital orderly shaped his career in hematology .
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17 Self-Reporting Overestimates Treatment Adherence in Pediatric ALL
22 Lenalidomide Maintenance and the Risk for Secondary Primary Malignancies
26 Hematology Pipeline : Drug Updates from the 2016 ASH Annual Meeting
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