In her paper “The depressive situation” Jacobs (2013) stresses the role of normative evaluative and narrative processes in what creates the lived experience of depression. These “evaluative dynamics” are seen to emerge out of an “interplay of pre-reflective and reflective processes,” which are claimed as being “significantly altered in depression.” Even if acknowledging a pre-reflective level o...

BACKGROUND Given the looming shortage of physicians in Canada, we wished to determine how closely the career preference of students entering Canadian medical schools was aligned with the current physician mix in Canada. METHODS Career choice information was collected from a survey of 2,896 Canadian medical students upon their entry to medical school. The distribution of career choices of surv...

In an interview with Neuron, Kerry Ressler discusses key questions in translational psychiatry, enthusiastically recounts a "eureka" moment he had as a student, and shares what he wishes the public understood about psychiatry and science.

Psychedelic compounds are on the cusp of being approved by medical regulators for treatment-resistant mental health disorders. Following promising clinical trials, and as rates ill rise globally, psychedelic medicine presents a new paradigm treating depression, anxiety, addiction post-traumatic stress disorder. The novelty therapies, cultural stigma they elicit, challenges regulation implementa...

background: given the decisive role of youth in spreading the risk of aids infection, education and increasing knowledge isone of the most important waysof controlling the disease.thus, the present study aimed to assessthe effect of aneducational pamphleton knowledge and attitude of non-medical students aboutaids in university of zabol, iran. methods: this pre-testpost-test quasi-experimental s...

background fatigue is a common symptom and one of the most important issues in community psychology. this study aimed to compare the rate and severity of fatigue in male and female students of jiroft university of medical sciences and to present appropriate solutions. material and methods this descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 200 students who were selected randomly at jiroft univer...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether depression in patients with advanced cancer is associated with increased rates of physician visits, especially to primary care. DESIGN Retrospective, observational study linking depression survey data to provincial health administration data. SETTING Toronto, Ont. PARTICIPANTS A total of 737 patients with advanced cancer attending Princess Margaret Hospital, w...

Objectives: Because there is heterogeneity in the ENARM scores obtained between Mexicans and International medical graduates (IMG) eight clinical specialities with direct-entry (Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine. Geriatrics, Internal Medicine, Medical Genetics, Pediatrics, Pneumology, Psychiatry), we aimed to evaluate those scores. We hypothesized that Mexican test-takers achieve higher than I...

ôbjective: â depressive disorder is an illness that involves the body, mood, thoughts and behaviors. this study was performed to identify the presence of depression among medical students of ürmia üniversity of medical sciences. methods: â descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 700 undergraduate medical and basic sciences students. beck depression inventory (bdï) used for data gathe...