Medical student syndrome

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Also know as hypochondriasis of medical students or Medical students? disease  or medical student disorder is a condition frequently reported in medical students, who perceive themselves or others to be experiencing the symptoms of the disease they are studying.

Description:

During medical student education, students learn different syndromes and diseases .As students read   many disease, they start presume that they exhibit a sign and symptoms associated with the disease.

For an example, student reads about brain tumor which main symptoms is headache and if student suffers form headache, they start believing they have a brain tumor.

This syndrome not only affects the medical student but any one who reads or has knowledge of medical condition.

Now a day medical student syndrome is becoming more common who use the internal and come to their doctor anxiously with rare disease symptoms, whereas probably all they have is something common and benign.

This is a type of acute hypochondriasis but some authors suggest that the condition is nosophobia rather than hypochondriasis. It is a medical student syndrome and can’t be prevented, and is self imposed.

No treatment is needed  for this syndrome.

Source:

1. Psychology.wikia.com
2. www.doctorsolve.com
3. en.wikipedia.org
4. medscape.com
5. www.medicalis.ro

Filed Under: Medicine

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