title: The medical-student spouse syndrome: grief reactions to the clinical years.
abstract: Medical students beginning the clinical years experience a change in routine that results in their spouses suffering the partial loss of a loved one. The author describes the way in which the spouses react to this loss as a grieving process with three stages--protest, despair, and detachment.
mesh_terms: D000786:Anger; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D004501:Education, Medical; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013337:Students, Medical