Letter to the Editor Open Access
Volume 6 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/dentistry.6.028
Assessing and Addressing Burnout in Dental Students
Mohsen Sharif Zadeh Ardakani1,*, Fatemeh Sadat Hoseini Nejad2
- 1Department of Dental Public Health, School of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran
- 2Fatemiyeh Shiraz, Non- governmental, Non- profit High Education Institute, Shiraz, Iran
Corresponding Author
Mohsen Sharif Zadeh Ardakani, msha7442@gmail.com
Received Date: May 30, 2024
Accepted Date: June 12, 2024
Ardakani MSZ, Hoseini Nejad FS. Assessing and Addressing Burnout in Dental Students. Arch Dent. 2024;6(1):3-4.
Copyright: © 2024 Ardakani MSZ, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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