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Widening participation in medicine: what, why and how?

2017-10-13

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This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Widening Participation (WP) is 'the process of encouraging underrepresented socioeconomic groups to apply for Higher Education'. This is particularly relevant to medicine, where representation of lower socioeconomic groups is generally poor. Reducing this divide is necessary as socioeconomic diversity enhances social mobility and is likely to improv...

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DOI: 10.15694/mep.2017.000184

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