A comparison of the personality profiles of internal medicine residents, physician role models, and the general population

Academic Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1327-1333

  Hojat, Mohammadreza ^b   Nasca, Thomas J ^c   Magee, Mike ^a   Feeney, Kendra ^c   Pascual, Rudolfo ^c   Urbano, Frank ^c   Gonnella, Joseph S ^b  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Jefferson Medical College ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MODEL; PERSONALITY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RESIDENT;

EID: 0033394685     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-199912000-00017     Document Type: Article

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