The mental health of newly graduate doctors in Malta

Psychiatria Danubina

Volumn 25, Issue SUPPL.2, 2013, Pages

  Taylor East, Rachel ^a   Grech, Anton ^a   Gatt, Caroline ^b  

^a Mount Carmel Hospital   (Malta)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Junior doctors; Migration; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENERAL HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE; GRADUATE STUDENT; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; MALTA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892408741     PISSN: 03535053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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