Graduate-entry medical students: older and wiser but not less distressed.

CONCLUSIONS: Despite their maturity, graduate-entry students experienced high psychological distress. Anxiety and stress were higher, not lower, with increasing age. Our results suggest that graduate-entry medical students warrant the same level of concern as their school-leaving counterparts. Further interventions to support these students during medical school are warranted. PMID: 26498151 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Australasian Psychiatry - October 23, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Casey D, Thomas S, Hocking DR, Kemp-Casey A Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research