Stress in medical undergraduates and house officers
Firth-Cozens, J.
British Journal of Hospital Medicine 41(2): 161-164
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0007-1064 PMID: 2653534 Document Number: 331972
Junior doctors, and to a lesser extent medical students, suffer higher rates of stress and depression than the general population. While some of the causes of these problems may lie with the individual, others are associated with organizational and career factors and with a training which still does not prepare them for those first postgraduate years.