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Workforce Diversity and Equity: Supporting International Medical Graduate Physicians to Address Gaps in Child Psychiatry

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    Manal Khan

  2. Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Deepika Shaligram

  3. Burrell Behavioral Health, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA

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Khan, M., Shaligram, D. & Adam, B. Workforce Diversity and Equity: Supporting International Medical Graduate Physicians to Address Gaps in Child Psychiatry. Acad Psychiatry 48, 188–192 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-023-01875-6

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