Is medical education hazardous to your health?
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When I entered “medical student stress” into the search window for Google Scholar I got over 1.5M hits. Judging by my own experience and the few (compared to 1.5M) articles I have read, we don’t find a very happy family portrait. Many of the articles which compose this issue of CMEJ speak to high levels of stress and burnout, worries about finding residency positions and jobs, and the experience of various forms of harassment. Medical education can sometimes be harsh rather than happy. Sorry; we are only the messengers here. Rather than drawing weapons and flailing them at the screen in front of you, let’s deal with this situation as best we can. I believe the first step is acknowledging the nature and magnitude of the problem, then recommending and implementing usually short term treatments, and finally – but perhaps most importantly – moving upstream to address the sources of stress.
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