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Call for advice or signal of distress?
Author(s) -
Shepherd Lisa
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/medu.14434
Subject(s) - advice (programming) , helpline , distress , emotional distress , psychology , medical education , medicine , medical emergency , computer science , psychiatry , clinical psychology , anxiety , emergency medicine , programming language
The author suggests that resident calls to a medico‐legal helpline may represent a critical need for ‘emotional first aid’ in the form of faculty and/or peer support.