May 17th, 2012
The pressures of everyday life can leave you feeling like you can’t cope. Revising for your medical exams is a particularly stressful time, says Charlotte Hudson. Here are some tips to manage stress. Photo by JixarThe symptoms of stress vary, from feelings of anxiousness to outbursts of temper, and during times of increasing pressure or [...]
September 21st, 2011
Modern society is becoming increasingly frantic. If we are not rushing to get somewhere, we are reading headline news or replying to text messages, in between preparing our next tweet and Facebook post, while planning how we can afford an iPad, get fit, feed ourselves, pass our exams and see our friends; I could go [...]
January 9th, 2009
It goes all the way back to 1986? Sometimes its best to look back not forwards, and we can see from research in the BMJ dating back to 1986 that medical students were having a tough time back then. Lets go back to the results from 1986 from the paper “Levels and sources of stress [...]