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The PRITE Examinations: Background and Future Directions

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Graph 1: PRITE Standard Score versus Percentile Rank

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Many thanks to the numerous individuals who have contributed to making the PRITE all that it is.

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  1. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine, Harlingen, TX, USA

    Arden D. Dingle

  2. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Robert Boland

  3. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Michael Travis

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Arden D Dingle MD

Editor in Chief, PRITE Editorial Board

Member, AACAP Ethics Committee

Chair, AADPRT Henderson Selection Committee

American Psychiatric Association (honorarium), FOCUS, contributor

Robert Boland MD

Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine

Associate Editor in Chief, PRITE Editorial Board

American Psychiatric Association (honorarium), FOCUS, contributor

Michael Travis MD

Co-Chair - National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative, www.NNCIonline.org

Member, PRITE Editorial Board

Co-Chair, Education Committee, Society of Biological Psychiatry

Member of Steering Committee and Executive Committee, American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT)

Program Chair Elect, AADPRT

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Dingle, A.D., Boland, R. & Travis, M. The PRITE Examinations: Background and Future Directions. Acad Psychiatry 42, 498–502 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-017-0857-3

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