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Cultivating the Professional Virtues in Medical Training and Practice

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  1. Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor University School of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, BCM 350, Houston, TX, 77030

    John H. Coverdale M.D., M.Ed., FRANZCP

  2. University Psychiatric Center, Detroit, MI

    Richard Balon M.D.

  3. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

    Laura Weiss Roberts M.D., M.A.

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Coverdale, J.H., Balon, R. & Roberts, L.W. Cultivating the Professional Virtues in Medical Training and Practice. Acad Psychiatry 35, 155–159 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.35.3.155

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