Emotional intelligence and stress in medical students performing surgical tasks

Academic Medicine

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1311-1317

  Arora, Sonal ^a   Russ, Stephanie ^a   Petrides, K V ^b   Sirimanna, Pramudith ^c   Aggarwal, Rajesh ^a   Darzi, Ara ^a   Sevdalis, Nick ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 80053477032     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31822bd7aa     Document Type: Article

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