{"id":137371,"date":"2025-02-11T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T07:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/around-20-of-uk-medical-students-consider-quitting-university-because-of-poor-mental-health-medical-students\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T09:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T07:05:44","slug":"around-20-of-uk-medical-students-consider-quitting-university-because-of-poor-mental-health-medical-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/around-20-of-uk-medical-students-consider-quitting-university-because-of-poor-mental-health-medical-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 20% of UK medical students consider quitting university because of poor mental health Medical students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137371\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>A survey of medical students found that around 40 per cent had experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression. Some one in five UK medical students said they were considering dropping out of university, according to a new survey that found many students were suffering from poor mental health. Medical students at nine institutions in the country responded to online survey questions between November 2020 and February 2021 and then to a follow-up survey between February and May 2021. Nearly 800 students responded to the initial questionnaire and around 407 completed the follow-up survey which included questions about their intention to leave school and their mental health.<\/p>\n<p>The results were published on Tuesday in the scientific journal BMJ Open and funded by the British Medical Association (BMA), the doctors and medical students\u2019 trade union. &#8221;These worrying findings line up with what we hear from our fellow medical students every day,\u201d Ria Bansal and Akshata Valsangkar, welfare deputy chairs of the BMA medical students committee, said in a statement reacting to the new survey. &#8221;No one should feel so stressed, and under such great pressure from studying to be a doctor that they experience serious symptoms of poor mental health&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A BMA survey of more than 3,500 medical students published earlier this month found that more than 40 per cent had considered pausing their schooling or leaving medicine due to financial pressures. &#8221;These astonishing and unmanageable pressures that we&#8217;re putting medical students under are completely unnecessary,&#8221; Bansal and Valsangkar added in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The new survey this week also found that six in 10 medical students were drinking hazardously and more than half had symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In most cases, those students reporting poor mental health symptoms such as insomnia were more likely to say they intended to leave school. &#8221;The findings of this study suggest that medical students\u2019 mental health is an important contributor to students dropping out and reinforces the importance of supporting students at medical school,&#8221; wrote the study authors from University College London in the UK and Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>The study also sheds &#8221;some light on which students are more likely to struggle and particularly need medical schools\u2019 support to successfully make it through their curriculum,&#8221; Milou Silkens, an assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Health Policy &amp; Management and one of the study&#8217;s authors, told Euronews Health in an email. &#8221;Medical schools can use these findings to work towards more supportive learning environments for medical students that destigmatise mental ill-health symptoms and seeking help to alleviate such symptoms,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2025\/02\/11\/around-20-of-uk-medical-students-consider-quitting-university-because-of-poor-mental-healt\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/health\/2025\/02\/11\/around-20-of-uk-medical-students-consider-quitting-university-because-of-poor-mental-healt\">Euronews Health<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/around-20-of-uk-medical-students-consider-quitting-university-because-of-poor-mental-health-medical-students\/\">Around 20% of UK medical students consider quitting university because of poor mental health Medical students<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1124,17924,17925,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-137371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-britain","tag-medical-students","tag-poor-mental-health","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}