Background: Peer review by resident physicians, a standard evaluation technique, has rarely been studied for potential biases related to demographic and cultural characteristics of trainees.Objective: The study sought to determine whether peer evaluations were favorably biased toward trainees of similar background. Methods: This observational study was conducted in the Internal Medicine residency of a large, metropolitan, community hospital, and included all 91 Internal Medicine residents who had entered the program from
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