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Burnout and imposter syndrome among Saudi young adults

The strings in the puppet show of psychological morbidity

Saad Alrayyes, Umar F. Dar, Musab Alrayes, Ahmed Alghutayghit and Nouf Alrayyes
Saudi Medical Journal February 2020, 41 (2) 189-194; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.2.24841
Saad Alrayyes
From the College of Medicine (Alrayyes S, Alghutayghit, Alrayyes N), from the Department of Community & Family Medicine (Dar), Jouf University; and from the Department of Internal Medicine (Alrayes M), Prince Mutaib Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Umar F. Dar
From the College of Medicine (Alrayyes S, Alghutayghit, Alrayyes N), from the Department of Community & Family Medicine (Dar), Jouf University; and from the Department of Internal Medicine (Alrayes M), Prince Mutaib Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Musab Alrayes
From the College of Medicine (Alrayyes S, Alghutayghit, Alrayyes N), from the Department of Community & Family Medicine (Dar), Jouf University; and from the Department of Internal Medicine (Alrayes M), Prince Mutaib Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ahmed Alghutayghit
From the College of Medicine (Alrayyes S, Alghutayghit, Alrayyes N), from the Department of Community & Family Medicine (Dar), Jouf University; and from the Department of Internal Medicine (Alrayes M), Prince Mutaib Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Nouf Alrayyes
From the College of Medicine (Alrayyes S, Alghutayghit, Alrayyes N), from the Department of Community & Family Medicine (Dar), Jouf University; and from the Department of Internal Medicine (Alrayes M), Prince Mutaib Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 41 no. 2 189-194
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.2.24841
PubMed 
32020154

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received July 1, 2019
  • Accepted December 5, 2019
  • Published online February 1, 2020.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Saad Alrayyes, MBBS,
  2. Umar F. Dar, MBBS, FCPS⇑,
  3. Musab Alrayes, MBBS,
  4. Ahmed Alghutayghit, MBBS and
  5. Nouf Alrayyes, MBBS
  1. From the College of Medicine (Alrayyes S, Alghutayghit, Alrayyes N), from the Department of Community & Family Medicine (Dar), Jouf University; and from the Department of Internal Medicine (Alrayes M), Prince Mutaib Bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Umar F. Dar, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Jouf University, Sakaka, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Email: ufdar{at}ju.edu.sa ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2149-2190
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