title: Stress in medical students.
abstract: Stress has been defined as the state of a body threatened by imbalance under the influence of agents or conditions endangering its homeostatic mechanisms but the concept have multiple meanings in correlation with the origin and biological support of its effects. Also, stressors are multiple, recording one of the highest levels during the academic studies. For the medical students, stress represents an important challenge, especially during the first year of medical school, caused by the absence of a learning strategy, the sleepless night before the exam and also an unhealthy food intake during the exams. The coping strategies are important, their background being represented by the social support, especially within the family, and emotional, the passions of the medicine students being the most important stress-combating factor. Gender represents also an important factor for the stress vulnerability, manifested through medical and psychiatric symptoms. In order to train good doctors, fair and above all healthy, it is important to consider not only the information we want to transmit, but also the context in which we educate.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, Center for Counseling and Occupational Orientation, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania; consiliere@webmail.umfcv.ro.
authors.forename: Florina
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nechita
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nechita
authors.forename: Mihail Cristian
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Pîrlog
authors.forename: Ion
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rogoveanu
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*