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Early-Career Motivation: Strategies for Sustaining Drive and Restoring Meaning in Academic Medicine

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Acknowledgements

The authors previously presented this material as a workshop entitled “Motivating Your Motivation: Restoring and Sustaining Meaning in your Early Academic Career” at the Association for Academic Psychiatry 2022 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, on September 7, 2022.

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Lebin, L.G., Koved, J. Early-Career Motivation: Strategies for Sustaining Drive and Restoring Meaning in Academic Medicine. Acad Psychiatry (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-023-01811-8

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