Physician impairment: Is it relevant to academic psychiatry?

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-43

  Myers, Michael F ^a,b,c  

^a Canadian Psychiatric Association

^b CMAJ   (Canada)

^c ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL DISEASE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; EDUCATION; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; WORKPLACE;

ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PSYCHIATRY; WORKPLACE;

EID: 41649116467     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ap.32.1.39     Document Type: Review

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