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  1. Calzi, S. L., Farinelli, M., Ercolani, M., Alianti, M., Manigrasso, V., & Taroni, A. M. (2006). Physical rehabilitation and burnout: Different aspects of the syndrome and comparison between healthcare professionals involved. Europa Medicophysica, 42, 27-36.Link
  2. Center, C., Davis, M., Detre, T., Ford, D. E., Hansbrough, W., Hendin, H. et al. (2003). Confronting depression and suicide in physicians. Journal of the American Medical Association, 289(23), 3161-3166. Link
  3. Chan, A. O. M., & Chan, Y. H. (2004). Influence of work environment on emotional health in a health care setting. Occupational Medicine, 54(3), 207-212. Link
  4. Clark, D. C., & Zeldlow, P. B. (1988). Vicissitudes of depressed mood during four years of medical school. Journal of the American Medical Association, 260(17), 2521-2528. Link
  5. De la Monte, S. M., & Hutchins, G. M. (1984). Is suicide a special occupational hazard for physicians? Journal of the American Medical Association, 251, 1952-1953. Link
  6. Dyrbye, L. N., Thomas, M. R., Huntington, J. L., Lawson, K. L., Novotny, P. J., Sloan, J. A., et al. (2006). Personal life events and medical student burnout: A multicenter study. Academic Medicine, 81(4), 374-384.Link
  7. Dyrbye, L. N., Thomas, M. R., Massie, S., Power, D. V., Eacker, A., Harper, W. et al. (2008). Burnout and suicidal ideation among U.S. medical students. Annals of Internal Medicine, 149, 334-341.Link
  8. Fenton, J.S. (1998). Burnout as a clinical entity- its importance in health care workers. Occupational Medicine, 22(5), 237-250.Link
  9. Givens, J. L., & Tjia, J. (2002). Depressed medical students’ use of mental health services and barriers to use. Academic Medicine, 77(9), 918- 921.Link
  10. Glass, D. C., McKnight, J. D., & Valdimorsdottir, H. (1993). Depression, burnout, and perceptions of control in hospital nurses. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 61(1), 147-155.Link
  11. Hays, L. R., Cheever, T., & Patel, P. (1996). Medical student suicide, 1989-1994. American Journal of Psychiatry, 153(4), 553-555.Link
  12. Hemenway, D., Solnick, S. J., & Colditz, G. A. (1993). Smoking and suicide among nurses. American Journal of Public Health, 83(2), 249-251. Link
  13. Joiner, T. E. (2005). Why people die by suicide. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  14. Lievens, F., Coetsier, P., DeFruyt, F., & DeMaeseneer, J. (2002). Medical students’ personality characteristics and academic performance: A five-factor model perspective. Medical Education, 36, 1050–1056. Link
  15. Meadors, P., & Lamson, A. (2008). Compassion fatigue and secondary traumatization: Provider self care on intensive care units for children. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 22, 24-34. Link
  16. Pepitone-Arreola-Rockwell, F., Rockwell, D., & Core, N. (1981). Fifty-two medical student suicides. American Journal of Psychiatry, 138(2), 198-201. Link
  17. Reynolds, C. F., & Clayton, P. J. (2009). Out of the silence: Confronting depression in medical students and residents. Academic Medicine, 84, 159-60. Link
  18. Rosenthal, J. M., & Okie, S. (2005). White coat, mood indigo – depression in medical school. New England Journal of Medicine, 353(11), 1085-1088. Link
  19. Sansone, R. A., & Sansone, L. A. (2009). Physician suicide: A fleeting moment of despair. Psychiatry, 6(1), 18-22.Link
  20. Schernhammer, E. (2005). Taking their own lives—The high rate of physician suicide. New England Journal of Medicine, 352(24), 2473-2476.
  21. Schwenk, T. L., Davis, L., Wimsatt, L. A. (2010). Depression, stigma, and suicidal ideation in medical students. Journal of the American Medical Association, 304(11), 1181-1190. Link
  22. Shaw, D. L., Wedding, D., Zeldow, P. B. (2001). Suicide among medical students and physicians, special problems of medical students. In: D. Wedding (Ed.), Behavior and Medicine. (pp. 78-79). Cambridge, MA: Hogrefe and Huber.
  23. Tjia, J., Givens, J. L., & Shea, J.A. (2005). Factors associated with undertreatment of medical student depression. Journal of American College Health, 53(5), 219-224. Link
  24. Tyssen, R., Vaglum, P., Gronvold, N. T., & Ekeberg, O. (2001). Suicidal ideation among medical students and young physicians: A nationwide and prospective study of prevalence and predictors. Journal of Affective Disorders, 64, 69-79. Link
  25. Wintersteen. M. B. (2010). Standardized screening for suicidal adolescents in primary care. Pediatrics, 125, 938-944.Link
  26. Wintersteen, M. B., Gordon, A., & Moderam, K. (2011, April). Suicide risk among medical students and students in other health professions. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Suicidology, Portland, OR.
  27. Zellars, K. L., Perrewe, P. L., & Hochwarter, W. A. (2000). Burnout in healthcare: The role of the five factors of personality. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 30, 1570-1598. Link
  28. Diamond, G., Levy, S., Bevans, K. B., Fein, J. A., Wintersteen, M. B., Tien, A., et al. (2010). Development,validation, and utility of internet-based, behavioral health screen for adolescents. Pediatrics, 126(1), e163-e170.Link