Occupational stress and burnout among surgeons in Fiji

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue MAR, 2017, Pages

  Patel, Rajeev ^a   Huggard, Peter ^b   van Toledo, Annik ^c  

^a Ministry of Health and Medical Services   (Fiji)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Burnout; Emotional exhaustion; Psychiatric morbidity; Stress; Surgeons

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021674053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/FPUBH.2017.00041     Document Type: Article

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