A national study of medical students' attitudes toward self-prescribing and responsibility to report impaired colleagues

Academic Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 485-493

  Dyrbye, Liselotte N ^a   West, Colin P ^a   Satele, Daniel ^a   Boone, Sonja ^b   Sloan, Jeff ^a   Shanafelt, Tait D ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS HOSPITAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; BURNOUT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN IMPAIRMENT; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84930334919     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000000604     Document Type: Article

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