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Frustration

author: www-data

Med school sucks. No, that's not an opinion. Academic Medicine reports that 22% of medical students show signs of depression. As was commented on US News, the reasons boil down to:

• - having to give up your social network and activities (even explicitly promoted and required by professors; yes, exactly those professors who were those students you didn't like, before they became professors)
• - no time for family and friends
• - arbritrary grading
• - high external pressure from outside to do everything perfectly
• - lack of previous experiences of failure, perfectionism
• - complexity of medical diagnosis and decision-making

I couldn't have summed it up more precisely. This is of course a

recipe for depression.

2009-02-07 15:00 | www-datarootshell.ro | [/tech-sci/medicine] | permanent link