Selection criteria for Australian and New Zealand medical specialist training programs: another under‐recognised driver of research waste

• TASMAN Collaborative

TASMAN Collaborative

Lorane Gaborit¹

Melissa Park²

Kyle Raubenheimer³

Laure Taher Mansour⁴

Cameron Wells⁵

Chris Varghese⁵

William Xu⁵

 

1 Australian National University, Canberra, ACT

2 Gosford Hospital, Gosford, NSW

3 University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle, WA

4 University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA

5 University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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