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Not only are a considerable proportion of medical students depressed, those who are believe they’ll lose the respect of their peers and their tutors if they speak out, according to new research in published in Journal of the American Medical Association. The study of 505 medical students in Michigan found that more than one in [...]
A third of Chinese children experience high levels of school-related stress, and these kids are about five times more likely to have the physical symptoms of stress – that is, headache or abdominal pain – then their less frazzled peers. Thanks to the combination of China’s recent economic growth – with the increased opportunities for [...]
New research has found that the UK Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT), introduced to level the playing field in selection for medical and dental schools, favours male applicants, white people, and students from a higher socioeconomic class or who attended an independent or grammar school. In the UK, students take advanced level (A level) exams aged [...]
Today my friends and I went to see the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, and it was AMAZING! The aim of this shiny new wing is to show visitors “the hidden world of museum science”. The Natural History Museum is rightly most famous for it’s natural history collection, which comprises more than 70 [...]
Urgh, exams. The epic ‘true-false-no idea’ multiple choicers of my undergraduate days are not a distant enough memory for me. The whole ‘get it right, get 1 point’, ‘get it wrong, lose 1 point’ approach always seemed horrendously unfair, regardless of the statistical basis for the strategy (i.e. examiners don’t want to reward people that [...]
BMC Medical Education has just published an interesting study that examined the incidence of fainting among medical students observing surgery. Apparently, more than 1 in 10 medical students almost or completely pass out in the operating theatre. The authors of this study surveyed 630 clinical medical students in their fourth or fifth (final) year of [...]