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One of the most serious threats medical students face during their clinical training is the possibility of exposure to blood-borne pathogens, with the attendant risk of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), or hepatitis C virus (HCV). Yet the problem of exposure to contaminated blood among the estimated 50,000 medical students in the United States,¹ about half of whom are receiving clinical training in the nation's 126 medical schools at a given time, has received little attention.^{2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13}

The risk of percutaneous injury to health care workers has been well documented.^14,15,16 It is estimated that the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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