Medicine student disease

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The Medicine student disease It is a frequent entity in medical students, who perceive themselves or others experiencing the symptoms of the disease they are studying.

It is also known as:

  • Medical student hypochondriasis
  • Medicine student syndrome or
  • Medicine student disorder

The condition is associated with the fear of contracting the disease in question.

Some authors suggest that the condition must be appointed as Nosophobia instead of hypochondría, since the aforementioned studies show a very low percentage of hypochondriac character of the disease, and therefore, the term “hypochondría” would have therapeutic and prognostic indications ominous. [ first ] ​ [ 2 ] ​
According to these authors, the condition would be associated with the immediate concern of the symptoms in question, which would lead the student to be excessively aware of the various psychological and physiological occasional dysfunctions. The cases do not show correlation with the seriousness of psychopathology but rather with accidental factors related to learning and experience.

Overview [ To edit ]

The suggestible states are very common. Medicine students studying terrifying diseases for the first time usually develop vivid delusions of having the “disease of the week”, anything they are currently studying. This temporary hypochondria class is so common that it has acquired the name of medical student syndrome.

Baars (2001)

The first descriptions of medical student disease appeared in the 1960s.

Hodges (2004)

He may have been referring to the phrase , because the phenomenon was noticed long before.

Medical instructors are continuously consulted by students who fear having the diseases they are studying. The knowledge that pneumonia produces pain in a certain place leads to a concentration of attention in that region which causes any sensation there can give the alarm. The mere knowledge of the location of the appendix transforms the most harmless sensations of that region into the symptoms of serious threat.

George Walton Lincoln (1908)

[In the 1960s,] this phenomenon caused a significant amount of stress for students and is present in approximately 70 to 80 percent of students […]
Some documents written in the 1980s and 1990
Marcus discovered that in the two -year dream content, medicine students were frequently involved in a concern with some personal disease. Marcus’ subjects reported many dreams in which they have suffered heart disease, eyes and intestines, among others.

Hodges (2004)

Hodges went on to describe the work of Moss-Morris and Petrie, who saw the disease of medical students as “a normal perception process, instead of a form of hypochondriasis.” Learn about a disease «creates a mental scheme or the representation of the disease that includes the seal of the disease and the symptoms associated with the disease. Once this representation is formed, the bodily symptoms or sensations that the individual is experiencing that they are compatible with the scheme are noted, while the inconsistent symptoms are ignored ».

Medicine students frequently develop fears and symptoms of the disease. This has been called Medicine Student, Nosophobia, Hypochondría of Medicine Students and “MedicalStudentitis”. [ 3 ] They mentioned two studies, one concludes that 70% of medical students have unfounded medical fears during their studies, and one that found that 78.8% of a randomly chosen sample of medical students showed a story of ” Medicine student disease.

Howes y Salkovskis (1998)

However, they cite a series of studies that show a similar incidence of hypochondria in law students and other non -medical students, who said in question «the generalized opinion that medical students are more likely than others to have a Excess anxiety for your health ».

Consequences of short and long term stress in university students [ To edit ]

Academic stress affects different variables such as emotional state, physical health or interpersonal relationships, being experienced differently by people. [ 4 ] ​

See also [ To edit ]

  1. ↑ Hunter, R. C. A.; Lohrenz, J. G.; and Schwartzman, A. E. (1964): “Noonophobia and hypochochodians in Medical Sttudents”, article in English Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, 130: pp. 147-152; 1964. PMID 14206454
  2. ↑ Thakur, nikhiil; and preunched, Bogdan (2008): “Noonphobia Preinted hypochochoding”, article in English magazine in the magazine TMJ, 56 (2): p. 120; 2008.
  3. ↑ The English term “MedicalStudentitis” comes from “medical student” (‘medical student’).
  4. ↑ Martín, M, I. (2007). «Academic stress in university students» . Consulted on March 6, 2016 .

References [ To edit ]

  • Baars, Bernard J. (2001): In the theater of consciousness: the workspace of the mind. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0-19-514703-0.
  • Hodges, Brian (2004): “Medical Student Bodies and the Pedagogy of Self-Refection, Self-Assessuses, and Self-regulation”, article in English JCT Rochester (Journal of Curriculum Theorizing), 20 (2), p. 41; 2004.
  • Howes, Oliver D.; and Salkovskis, Paul M. (1998): “Health Anxiety in Medical Students”, an English article published in the magazine The Lancet, Volvation. 351, N.o 9112, pá. 1332; May 2,
  • Thakur, Nikhil; Y Preunca, Bogdan (2008): Medical student syndrome: nosophobia presented as acute hypochondria. Timişoara (Rumania): Victor Babeş University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 2008.
  • Walton, George Lincoln (1908): Why worry? (Published online on the Gutenberg Project website). Philadelphia (Massachusetts): J. B. Lippinott, 1908.