Vocation and avocation: leisure activities correlate with professional engagement, but not burnout, in a cross-sectional survey of UK doctors
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Sir William Osler suggested in 1899 that avocations (leisure activities) in doctors are related to an increased sense of vocation (professional engagement) and a decreased level of burnout. This study evaluated those claims in a larg...
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Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-08-01
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Series: | BMC Medicine |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/9/100 |