Emotional Intelligence Level Higher in Residents Who Took a Gap Year Before Medical School [Letter]
1School of Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
Advances in Medical Education and Practice
|September 18, 2020
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