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The Influence of Social Supports on Graduate Student Persistence in Biomedical Fields

*Address correspondence to: Mica Estrada (E-mail Address: [email protected]).

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118

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Qi Zhi

Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118

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Ezinne Nwankwo

Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118

Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095

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Robyn Gershon

Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118

Department of Epidemiology, College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY 10003

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Erin L. Dolan, Monitoring Editor

Published Online:23 Aug 2019https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-01-0029

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Submitted: 1 February 2019

Revised: 31 May 2019

Accepted: 3 June 2019

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© 2019 M. Estrada et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2019 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

This study was funded by a grant (RO1GM107782-01) provided by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. We are grateful to the members of the advisory board and stakeholders who graciously shared their expert advice. We also deeply appreciate the Graduate Study Division, School of Medicine, and School of Nursing at UCSF for their support and assistance in this project. A special note of thanks to the study participants for their enthusiastic participation in the various aspects of this study.

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