Preclinical anxiety: the stress associated with a viva voce examination.
It is shown that the state anxiety scores of 75 preclinical students taking a series of written and oral examinations, and measured just prior to taking a viva voce examination, were substantially raised. There was no correlation of anxiety with overall examination performance.
D001007:Anxiety; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008131:London; D008297:Male; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*