Hypochondriac Medical Student

A Brief Look at Medical Student Syndrome | Psychology …

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-excess/201609/brief-look-medical-student-syndrome

Medical students who study frightening diseases for the first time routinely develop vivid delusions of having the ‘disease of the week’ – whatever they are currently studying. This temporary...

Hypochondriasis: an overview with reference to …

https://www.bmj.com/content/319/Suppl_S5/9911410

The definition of hypochondriasis is a persistent, unrealistic preoccupation with the …

I contracted medical student syndrome. You …

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Mental health professionals consider the syndrome a subgroup-specific form of hypochondriasis: …

Medical students' disease - Wikipedia

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Hypochondriasis: The Medical Student’s …

http://frontiersmag.wustl.edu/2015/04/20/hypochondriasis-the-medical-students-affliction/

Another possible cause of increased risk for preclinical medical students to become hypochondriacs is the unfamiliar lifestyle they must lead during the …

A Brief Look at Medical Student Syndrome | Psychology …

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/in-excess/201609/brief-look-medical-student-syndrome

Medical students who study frightening diseases for the first time routinely develop vivid delusions of having the ‘disease of the week’ – whatever they are currently …

When Medical School Students Become …

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jp5kwk/when-medical-school-students-become-crazed-hypochondriacs

The article tells the story of a medical student, Mike, who found himself to have anemia, a low red blood cell count, when studying how to take the hematocrit (red …

Hypochondria in medical students and doctors: When to …

https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/hypochondria-in-medical-students-and-doctors-when-to-worry-about-health-symptoms.html

The research on medical student syndrome is less robust than the anecdata: Though one study from the 1960s found that more than 70 percent of medical students …

How to Avoid Medical Student Syndrome: 5 …

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“[The] phenomenon caused a significant amount of stress for students and was present in approximately 70 to 80 percent of students… papers written in the 1980s and 1990s …

"Medical Student Syndrome"-A Myth or a Real Disease …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34574807/

The description of Medical Student Syndrome is based on the assumption that inexperienced medical students are prone to develop a pathological fear of …