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Table 2.

Graduates’ Perspectives of What They Learned (n=122)

“The HEART experience…”	% Highly Agree^*
1. Helped me to better cope with the stresses associated with residency training.	80
2. Taught me skills that I used to help take better care of myself during residency training	75
3. Improved my ability to empathize and connect with my patients.	71
4. Increased my knowledge of complementary and alternative medicine.	85
5. Increased my self-confidence in taking on leadership roles.	57
6. Increased my ability to work collaboratively with colleagues as a team.	66
7. Has made me more satisfied with my decision to be in medicine.	73
8. Positively affected my personal development.	89
9. Positively affected my professional development.	77

Answer choices were along a 7 point Likert scale ranging from absolutely disagree (1) to absolutely agree (7). Shown are the percent of graduates responding to the question with a 6 or 7.