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Stress Profiles and Their Implications for Intervention

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This study surveyed 222 medical students and found that financial difficulties, single marital status and being farther along in medical school were likely to be associated with increased dysphoria. The lack of available psychiatric faculty to meet all the student needs led to the development of two innovative programs. Psychiatrists recruited and prepared clinicians to serve as mentors for first year medical students. Psychiatric staff also trained and supervised associate deans to lead student support groups as a separate intervention. Program evaluations by both students and faculty have been encouraging.

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  1. Kathleen N. Franco M.D. (Associate Professor and Director of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry)

    Present address: Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH, 43699, USA

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH, 43699, USA

    Brendan Carroll (fourth year medical students), Peggy A. Seidman (fourth year medical students) & Cynthia L. Evans M.D. (Clinical Assistant Professor)

  2. Outpatient Division, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, USA

    Marijo B. Tamburrino M.D. (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry)

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Franco, K.N., Tamburrino, M.B., Carroll, B. et al. Stress Profiles and Their Implications for Intervention. Acad Psychiatry 12, 233–237 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399986

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