Saad Saleem Khan.
Personality changes in medical students: causes, consequences and proposed solutions.
J Pak Med Assoc Jan ;64(12):1440-1440.

Madam, globally, the aim of medical education is to produce knowledgeable,1 competitive, and professional brains implemented to cushion the ill individuals, advance the field of medicine and to boost the quality of life. Medical students who are trained and groomed to be skillful professionals have to undergo consistent stress right from their undergraduate years or even before that period. A great majority of the students imbibe this stress in a positive way and nurture their performance while acquiring dexterity. However, a few individuals are unable to cope up with this substantial stress.1 Although medical profession is humanity serving profession with the major goal to treat a patient's mental as well as physical health. But unfortunately, the sentinel dilemma is that a few medical students themselves get a great personality distress.1 It has been rightly said, 'When you first treat a disease, first treat the mind'. In contrast to the above mentioned statement, considerable number of medical students during their training become victims of such mental and physical stress. The major culprit encompasses and revolves around certain environmental as well as professional circumstances that back stabs a medical student's mental status which has a very catastrophic effect on their personality.

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