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The Low Development of Autotranscendence in Medical Education as a Possible Contributing Factor to the Poor Recruitment in Psychiatry

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  1. Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Gustavo Medeiros, Daniela Sampaio & Hermano Tavares

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Medeiros, G., Sampaio, D. & Tavares, H. The Low Development of Autotranscendence in Medical Education as a Possible Contributing Factor to the Poor Recruitment in Psychiatry. Acad Psychiatry 38, 755–756 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-014-0178-8

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