Intern to attending: Assessing stress among physicians

Academic Medicine

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 251-257

  Stucky, Erin R ^a,f   Dresselhaus, Timothy R ^b   Dollarhide, Adrian ^b   Shively, Martha ^c   Maynard, Gregory ^b   Jain, Sonia ^b   Wolfson, Tanya ^b   Weinger, Matthew B ^d   Rutledge, Thomas ^e  

^a RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; JOB STRESS; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PEDIATRIC WARD; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESIDENT; SLEEP; STRESS; STUDENT T TEST; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKLOAD; ADULT; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MENTAL STRESS; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BRIEF PSYCHIATRIC RATING SCALE; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; PREVALENCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 59849128425     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181938aad     Document Type: Article

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