“You teach us to listen,… but you don’t teach us about suffering”: self-care and resilience strategies in medical school curricula

Perspectives on Medical Education

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 371-378

  Outram, Sue ^a   Kelly, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Medical curricula; Resilience; Self care; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940659743     PISSN: 22122761     EISSN: 2212277X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40037-014-0145-9     Document Type: Review

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