Mental health: when medical students become the patients
In the coming weeks, students all over Australia will begin the university semester. Of these students, 17,500 may not know it yet, but their mental health is at a considerably higher risk compared with their peers.
This is not because of their past history, or because of their location, but rather because these 17,500 students chose to study medicine. Of these 17,500 medical students, 3500 will be starting medical school for the very first time. Many of these students are entirely unaware that they now carry these additional mental health risks.
Read the full article at Australian Medical Association
(https://ama.com.au/ausmed/mental-health-when-medical-students-become-patients)
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