STRESS, COPING AND HEALTH - ENHANCING WELL-BEING DURING MEDICAL-SCHOOL

Medical education can be a health hazard for many students, and far-re aching reforms are needed to improve it. This article reviews the lite rature on stress, coping and health during undergraduate medical educa tion. The conclusions drawn from this review are used as a basis for a dvancing recommendations to improve medical education. It is essential to incorporate the principles of health promotion and disease prevent ion throughout medical education in order to minimize and prevent late r bum-out and impairment. Healthy medical students are likely to becom e healthy doctors who can then model and promote healthy lifestyles wi th their patients. This preventive approach to health care can lead to an improvement in our health care delivery system.