Guiding undergraduate medical students to use literature appropriately

Response of undergraduate medical students to SARS.

During last year’s SARS epidemic where Malaysia was spared, we conducted a questionnaire study on medical students of a private medical university in Malaysia in order to better understand their responses to the SARS epidemic, particularly in the face of uninterrupted ward teaching in Seremban Hospital a government designated SARS hospital where potential SARS cases referred from other healthca...

Teaching learning disability to undergraduate medical students

Computer and Internet use among Undergraduate Medical Students in Iran

OBJECTIVE Although computer technologies are now widely used in medicine, little is known about its use among medical students in Iran. The aim of this study was to determine the competence and access to computer and internet among the medical students. METHODS In this descriptive study, medical students of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Science, Yazd, Iran from the fifth years were as...

Depression among undergraduate medical students.

BACKGROUND Psychological stress is common in medical school and associated with depression. Medical education is grooming in Nepal, but only few studies are done concerning mental health of medical students. OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of depression among medical students at different levels of education and find about their stressors. METHODS A cross sectional, questionnaire-based s...

Depression and stress amongst undergraduate medical students

BACKGROUND The demands placed on medical trainees pose a challenge to personal wellbeing, leading to burnout and erosion of empathy. However, it is unclear at what point in medical education this decline begins. Although many schools have begun to design and implement wellness programs for their students, the medical education community's experience in evaluating their impact is limited. METH...