The holistic review of applicants conducted by medical schools includes an assessment of their distance traveled (e.g., hardships overcome) to get to this point on their educational journey. 1 What medical students consider to be distance traveled and how they think it should be included has not been explored. This qualitative study seeks to address this gap in knowledge and centers the voices of medical students by attending to how they conceptualize their own distance traveled.
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