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Mentoring Tomorrow's Physicians

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What makes a caring, empathic, and wise physician is not medical school. These qualities have their origins in our early environment - one’s upbringing, grade school teachers, scout leaders and coaches, and later educators who take a special interest in one’s personal development, and, of course, mentors.

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Taylor, R.B. (2010). Mentoring Tomorrow's Physicians. In: Medical Wisdom and Doctoring. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5521-0_9

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