Premedical special master’s programs increase USMLE STEP1 scores and improve residency placements

• Bryan Johnson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bryan Johnson, Matthew Flemer

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

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• Matthew Flemer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Bryan Johnson, Matthew Flemer

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

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• Sadik Khuder,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Dept. of Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

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• Nitin Puri

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: purin@marshall.edu

  Affiliations Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America, Dept. of Medical Education, Joan C. Edwards College of Medicine, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2388-246X

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