Health anxiety among medical students: A comparison between preclinical and clinical years of training

• Main Authors: Jitendra Rohilla (Author), Pinki Tak (Author), Shubham Jhanwar (Author), Shazia Hasan (Author), Rameshwer Gaykwad (Author), Ravi Yadav (Author), Pawan Kumar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: It is common among medical students to falsely attribute bodily sensations/symptoms and holds a belief of having a medical illness with varying level of conviction. We studied and compared this condition known as "medical student syndrome", a type of hypochondriasis, between pre...