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Promise of Professionalism: Personal Mission Statements Among a National Cohort of Medical Students

Michael W. Rabow, Judith Wrubel and Rachel Naomi Remen
The Annals of Family Medicine July 2009, 7 (4) 336-342; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.979
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vol. 7 no. 4 336-342
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.979
PubMed 
19597171

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The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication June 24, 2008
  • Revision received November 5, 2008
  • Accepted for publication November 11, 2008
  • Published online July 13, 2009.

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  1. Michael W. Rabow, MD1,
  2. Judith Wrubel, PhD2 and
  3. Rachel Naomi Remen, MD3
  1. 1Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California
  2. 2Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California
  3. 3Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal, and Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Michael W. Rabow, MD, UCSF/Mount Zion, 1701 Divisadero St. #500, San Francisco, CA 94143-1732, mrabow{at}medicine.ucsf.edu

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