Looking Beyond Personal Stressors: An Examination of How Academic Stressors Contribute to Depression in Australian Graduate Medical Students

Teaching and Learning in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-63

  O'Reilly, Erin ^a   McNeill, Kathleen G ^a   Mavor, Kenneth I ^a   Anderson, Katrina ^b  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b Aged Care Evaluation Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

depression; life events; medical students; personal and academic stressors; stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893123143     PISSN: 10401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10401334.2013.857330     Document Type: Article

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