Matriculation

Medical education

Anxiety

Quantum mechanics

Burnout

Psychiatry

Philosophy

Medicine

Mental health

Scale (ratio)

Linguistics

Gerontology

Pedagogy

Clinical psychology

Perceived Stress Scale

Curriculum

Psychology

Stress (linguistics)

Physics

Medical Education Online

Background: Medical student wellness, including physical health, emotional health, and levels of perceived stress, appears to decline during training, with students reporting high levels of depression, anxiety, and burnout as early as the first year of medical school. The impact of curricular changes on health and stress remains unclear, and a modified curriculum that compresses training of the foundational sciences and its effect on wellness has not been studied. Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine has recently instituted a unique competency-based model, which provides an important opportunity to assess the effects of curricular change on student wellness.Objective: Assess the effects of curricular change on student wellness.Design: Medical students at a single institution were administered the SF-8, an 8-item health-related quality of life survey, as well as the Perceived Stress Scale, a 10-item scale that measures the degree to which life situations are appraised as stressful, at baseline...

Trends in medical students’ stress, physical, and emotional health throughout training