Medical students face challenges, find new ways to deal with stress

University Wire;  July 30, 2001 ;     637 words ......BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Twelve percent of all medical students become clinically ill during their...factor, stress. Frequently, residential medical students and interns are required to work 36-ho...student's work week. Although many medical students undergo training programs designed...

Bma sounds alert over medical students' debts

Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK);  November 9, 2006 ;     424 words ...Medical students are building up crippling debts of up to pounds52...of credit-card debt. Nearly 90% of the 287 Scots medical students polled had a student loan. Medical students are thought to rack up higher debts because they...

Extended Psychiatric Interview and Medical Students: A Tool For Teaching...

The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Background: There is difficulty in teaching medical students clinical psychiatric skills, specifically...prolonged clinical interview. Methods: Medical students in their second clinical year interview...interview, performed independently by medical students, facilitates the learning ...

Medical Students for Choice Addresses Anthrax Threats Against Abortion...

PR Newswire;  October 18, 2001 ;     474 words ......release is being issued on behalf of Medical Students for Choice: Threatening letters and...Backus, MPH, executive director of Medical Students for Choice said today, As we watch...that such threats cause, all of us at Medical Students for Choice wish to express our concern...

U. Arizona medical students will discuss abortion

University Wire;  April 3, 2000 ;     700+ words ......was deemed ineffective. A group of medical students have been lobbying to bring the subject...McKellar, founder of the UA's chapter of Medical Students for Choice, said she wanted to learn...we're going to have to know about it." Medical Students for Choice Executive Director ...

Iserson's Getting into a Residency: A Guide for Medical Students

Journal of the National Medical Association;  October 1, 2004 ;     200 words ......Getting into a Residency: A Guide for Medical Students Kenneth Iserson, MD, MBA, FACEP; Galen...all of the important details that medical students need to tend to in order to have a...Although this book was written for medical students, anyone who teaches medical ...

Medical students' debts soar

Belfast Telegraph;  February 2, 2002 ;     283 words ...SOME Ulster medical students have debts as high as 25,0000...Association's annual report of medical students' finances revealed that total...The average amount owed by medical students in the UK is 9,732 and reaches...

Female medical students less confident than their male counterparts

The Hindustan Times;  October 5, 2008 ;     459 words ......performance to male peers, female medical students tend to be consistently less confident...study also revealed that the female medical students also had a tendency to appear less...Ph.D said: "We observed third-year medical students interacting with individuals simulating...

Attracting Medical Students to Surgical Residency Programs

The American Surgeon;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......of creating a better match between medical students and general surgery programs and providing a program that is desirable to medical students who are interested in pursuing careers...hospitals, 23 university programs, and medical students interviewing for surgical residency...

Smoking More Common Among Nursing Than Medical Students; New Study Shows...

PR Newswire;  October 13, 2003 ;     700+ words ......more severely nicotine-dependent than medical students, says a study published in the October...nursing students smoke cigarettes than medical students, and nearly twice as many nursing...found that the smoking rate among medical students has significantly decreased in the...

Fed: Govt to spend $8.9 million funding rural medical students

AAP General News (Australia);  July 17, 2007 ;     225 words ......to spend $8.9 million funding rural medical students CANBERRA, July 17 AAP - The federal...months to increase opportunities for medical students to train in a rural setting. During...new accommodation would be built for medical students at Dubbo's University of Sydney School...

U. Arizona graduate student council loses medical students

University Wire;  April 8, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Kundavaram said. In a 68-57 vote, medical students chose to "leave GPSC and join...misleading because the query asked if medical students wanted to "leave GPSC and join ASUA," but medical students are already a part of the Associated...

Assessment of attitudes towards assisted reproduction: A survey among...

Gynecological Endocrinology;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......future doctors (third- and fourth-year medical students). Methods. We anonymously surveyed...Kuopio University Hospital, and 200 medical students of Kuopio University. Results. The...response rate was 45%. Most of the medical students were childless (95.7%), unmarried...

EXPERT PATIENTS FACILITATE EXAMS INSTRUCTOR STAND-INS GIVE MEDICAL...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  December 14, 1997 ;     639 words ......equivalent of a flight simulator for medical students. She literally offers up her body time and again to allow medical students at the University of Wisconsin...intensely trained, who provide medical students with their first hands-on clinical...

Medical students to learn how to look after their own health

The Sunday Herald;  September 26, 1999 ;     573 words ...MEDICAL students have been told they must attend...themselves. From next month, all new medical students at Dundee University will be taught...management. And in the first term the new medical students will be given a personal log sheet...