Privacy Concerns Spur Plan to Revise Questionnaire for Medical-School Graduates

The Association of American Medical Colleges is moving to revise a questionnaire distributed annually to graduating medical students that an advocacy group asserts could violate the privacy of respondents as well as federal rules on human-subjects research.

Last month a federal watchdog office determined that some of the questions, which dealt with students' debt load and whether they had ever been sexually or verbally harassed by instructors, could trigger a review by a university

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