Family Medicine Residents and the Impostor Phenomenon

Family Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 248-252

  Oriel, Kathy ^a,b   Plane, Mary Beth ^a   Mundt, Marion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CLANCE IMPOSTER SCALE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPETENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPOSTER PHENOMENON; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; ROSENBERG SELF ESTEEM SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; STATE ANXIETY SCALE; TRAIT ANXIETY SCALE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DEPRESSION; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 1942519247     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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