The relationship between perfectionism and symptoms of depression in medical school applicants.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:The association between perfectionism and depression in the medical profession can ultimately influence physicians' performance negatively. In medical students, especially maladaptive perfectionism is connected with distress and lower academic performance. The expression of perfectionism and symptoms of depression at the time of medical school application is not known. Therefore, we explored perfectionism and symptoms of depression in participants of multiple mini-interviews for medical school admission and investigated possible differences between applicants who were eventually admitted or rejected. METHODS:After the multiple mini-interviews admission procedure at Hamburg Medical School in August 2018, 146 applicants filled out a questionnaire including sociodemographic data an

SUBMITTER: Bußenius L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6794862 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature