Batting 300 Is good: Perspectives of faculty researchers and their mentors on rejection, resilience, and persistence in academic medical careers

Academic Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 497-504

  Decastro, Rochelle ^a   Sambuco, Dana ^a   Ubel, Peter A ^b   Stewart, Abigail ^a   Jagsi, Reshma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84875835026     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318285f3c0     Document Type: Article

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