Medical students in distress: The impact of gender, race, debt, and disability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2012, over half of US medical students experienced burnout and depression. Since that time, there have been many changes to student demographics, school resources and awareness of burnout in the medical field altogether. New tools are also available to screen for student distress, a condition that correlates with low mental quality-of-life, suicidal ideation and serious thoughts of dropping out. Despite increased attention on wellbeing and improved screening methods, no large-scale studies have evaluated student distress in the modern era of medical education. The objective of this study was to determine the current prevalence of medical student distress and contributing risk factors.

Methods

Student wellbeing from a national cohort of US medical students was m

SUBMITTER: Rajapuram N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7714351 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature