Abstract: Medical education is always considered as challenging and demanding. Unfortunately, the fact that doctors too can experience emotional disturbances like everyone else is overlooked and experiencing stress in medical life is considered to be a done thing. The undergraduate students, when bombarded with the burden of academic curriculum coupled with the necessity to become responsible and competent professionals, experience stress but hardly reach out to others for help. The coping styles of students who experience stress are also majorly maladaptive and that only adds on to their distress. Stress not only disturbs our emotional equilibrium but also takes a toll on our.........
Keywords: Stressor, Medical students, perceived stress, coping strategy
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