Cornerstones of career satisfaction in medicine

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 512-522

  Lepnurm, Rein ^a   Danielson, Danton ^a   Dobson, Roy ^a   Keegan, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inherent satisfaction; Performance satisfaction; Satisfaction of specialties

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CAREER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB SATISFACTION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN;

EID: 33746669403     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: 14970015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/070674370605100806     Document Type: Article

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