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A total of 7931 ratings of 482 third- and fourth-year medical students were gath ered over twelve four-week periods. Ratings were made by multiple raters, house officers, and attending faculty, on fifteen behaviorally-anchored rating scales. The data were factor analyzed separately for each of the twelve periods.
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