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Medical Student Stress, Adaptation, and Mental Health

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With the growth of interest in the problem of the impaired physician and concerns about the origins and possible preventive approaches, attention has been focused on the mental health of medical students, and more specifically on their psychological vulnerabilities. Medical training shares many characteristics with other graduate and professional programs. There are, however, some specific and unique features: the length, rigidity, and intensity of the training period from the beginning of medical school through residency is unequalled in other professional or graduate programs. Although other educational programs may span the same number of years, they do not involve the same total and inflexible commitment during those years.1,2,3

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Carol C. Nadelson & Malkah T. Notman

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York, USA

    David W. Preven

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    Stephen C. Scheiber

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Nadelson, C.C., Notman, M.T., Preven, D.W. (1983). Medical Student Stress, Adaptation, and Mental Health. In: Scheiber, S.C., Doyle, B.B. (eds) The Impaired Physician. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4304-2_7

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