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suicidal thoughts - depresssion
One thing these med students do have going for them is that they are already a lot smarter than the rest of us - just qualifying and being accepted into med school. Perhaps a mandatory course/courses on doctors and depression could bring the problem more out in the open.
Posted to What's Up, Doc by david wayne osedach on October 6, 2008
Teachers
I suggest someone should run a similar study of first year teachers. I predict similar results.
Posted to What's Up, Doc by laikalives on October 6, 2008
Completed Suicide among Med Students
Significant numbers of medical students, and doctors, have suicidal thoughts. I hope someone is tracking completed suicide among physicians in training and physicians in practice. In the 1990s, I taught at a large midwestern medical school that lost one or two students to suicide every year. If we had lost those students to an infectious ...
Posted to What's Up, Doc by Casparado on October 4, 2008