Problems of medical students in India.
A sample of 505 medical students from five medical colleges with urban and regional environmental settings was selected. The subjects belonged to three groups: (1) students having covered only 3-4 months in college; (2) students exceeding 18 months in college; and (3) interns (students having graduated). A comparison was made between male and female students belonging to high and low socio-economic status groups from both urban as well as regional colleges separately. Findings suggest that in urban colleges males report significantly more problems than females in areas like: courtship, sex and marriage; morals and religion; adjustment to college work; and curriculum and teaching procedure. In regional colleges, males as compared with females reveal significantly more problems in areas like: finance, living conditions and employment; courtship, sex and marriage; home and family; the future: vocational and educational matters; and curriculum and teaching procedure.
D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004777:Environment; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D012737:Sex Factors; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*