Gastroenterology
Volume 130, Issue 1 , Pages 218-224 , January 2006

What Will Be Needed for the New Gastroenterology Fellowship Match to Succeed?

  • Muriel Niederle

      Affiliations

    • Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California
    • National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress requests for reprints to: Chair, Clinical Practice and Economics Committee, AGA National Office, c/o Membership Department, 4930 Del Ray Avenue, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Fax: (301) 654-5920
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  • Deborah D. Proctor

      Affiliations

    • Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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  • Alvin E. Roth

      Affiliations

    • Department of Economics, and Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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PII: S0016-5085(05)02238-9

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2005.10.058

Gastroenterology
Volume 130, Issue 1 , Pages 218-224 , January 2006

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