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Article History

Received: 18 September 2017

Accepted: 18 October 2018

First Online: 6 November 2018

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: Queen Mary Research Ethics Committee, University of London, agreed on 11 November 2015 that there was no need for ethical review of UK Medical Education Database research studies.

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: The authors declare they have no competing financial interests. PG chairs the UK GAMSAT Users Group and is a member of the UKMED research sub-group. ICM is a member of the UKMED advisory group and research sub-group.

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