How toxic is Med School? 

Why? Exceedingly long working hours, immense pressure, $300,000+ debt, toxic culture, board exams, immense stress, the list goes on. Source for statistics below: Source: Prevalence of Depresion, Depresive Symptoms, and Suicidâl Ideatión Among Medical Students A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, JAMA 2016

It was my first time taking a patient's blood sample today and I did everything wrong at least that's what the doctor who showed me was yelling... it's so toxic why can't we just help and support each other? I'm already mad at myself there's no need for him to make me feel even worse.

I'm willing to bet that number is much higher, people probably just don't report it. Medical school is BRUTAL. And you have to deal with so much toxicity when working in the medical field, whether you're a doctor, nurse, cleaning staff, front desk, etc

You can't forget the infamous "please promise me

I like this dude/doctor. Hes super chill and not toxic at all. Just stating facts.

wow. that really cemented that in for me in a way stats and words cant

Thank you for sharing this and raising awareness. My 2nd year of med school, one of my friends and classmates took his own life. People sometimes just see the MD, salary, and “social status,” but don’t see a lot of what you listed in your pinned status - and that stuff affects us even as mere “trainees.”

Wow that's so sad 💔 we are experiencing a shortage of medical professionals in Ontario currently with Emergency rooms needing to close down and inreasingly long wait times for patients. Medical professionals are so vitally important. Surely we can do better than this! They are all leaving the field due to stress/burnout.

And I was one of them, now I am considering dropping out because nothing is worth feeling this depressed for

Lets be the generation that breaks this toxic cycle. LETS GET IT FUTURE DOCS! 😁

I had a mental breakdown my last semester of nursing school. I narrowly avoided becoming a statistic.

Thanks for sharing this Dr.Jake🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐

Engineering students tend to have similar or worse at my specific university there is at least one student suicide per semester and its not a large college. The stat I believe last brought up was 1 in 3 stem students at my university think of Suicide.

It’s just my classmates that are excessively toxic. So as long as they’re avoided, I can tolerate the toxic behavior of my attendings

You should do more POVS of being the doctor!!

It’s true for vet med too. Unfortunately lost 3 of my colleagues this year.

Currently in law school. We don't have to do rotations, but the stress is immense. So much pressure is put on one exam per class.

Applies to pre-meds too

I’m considering changing career paths to become a doctor(currently a medical interpreter) and this scares me more than anything else… idk if I should choose not to pursue it bc I already have mental health struggles

Big relate to the Toxic Culture 😐

Yeah u got me before yesterday i was taking my pc 1 mid exam and it was like ending of everything I even panic got heart attack. Med School is way far difficult more than it has been told . Life full of depression,tension always being afraid of spending day without reading ohhhhhhhhhhh

Huge respect to all Healthcare providers out there. Vets (also Healthcare providers), have the highest suicide rate of all careers, so something HAS to change

that 10th one already dead

That is so sad

Sometimes the toxicness makes me rethink medical school. Also, i always wanted to ask this, but what is your major?

Medical school and the health care field is a brutal field

It's not different than a lot of other careers, at least from what I saw in college. More than once I was the 2AM call from someone sitting on a roof or standing on a bridge or sitting with pills or gun in hand. Higher education has an extremely toxic approach to anyone who doesn't accept abuse from professors, grad TAs, staff (especially housing and financial aid office staff), and administration. It's a concentration of national culture that anyone under 60 doesn't deserve basic respect, dignity, living wages, safe housing, affordable food, and jobs that don't work you until you collapse. We have a much bigger fight in front of us than any one profession and that's part of the problem; it truthfully affects nearly everyone but we grew up being told that "others" have it easy and are somehow "taking advantage of the system" and hurting us in the process. And the reality is the only people "taking advantage of the system" are the wealthy elite who hide behind fear mongering that turns us against each other.

In my country having access to drugs is easy so most of them end up being addicted to different drugs

The hospitals:do they tho?

wait til u have to save em lifes idk doin dat seems like too much pressure

I'm still hesitating if I should go with the medicine pathway or not cuz my mental health is unstable. But 70% is a yes to medicine pathway after my A levels.

Slave-like medical profession in some countries: You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookies number

Sadly I’m the one of the 9

Of course it's super hard

Just wait till internship and residency…

You know that graduate student you dissed because she was studying night and day to become the wrong kind of doctor (PhD)? She's been studying doctor suicide for years. She could give you a lot of insight into the toxic hierarchy of the medical profession and the crippling role of stigma. We are better together. Medical sociology.

that's makes me re think on becoming a nurse

That is 11.1...% which is way too high.

I don’t need medical school for that

2 in 12 made it here

This is just work and going to school. It’s stressful for everyone.

Just 1 in 9? Yeah, that doesn’t sound bad.

And in one of those

Ok now I don’t want to become a surgeon anymore

I’ve always wanted to be a doctor but you make me think harder about it haha

i literally know someone

Is that a 16233 I see ?

The statistic is even worse with regular high school students

If I was not muslim l would be die I wish i can end my live 😟 the med school really hard

But 8 doesn't. Look on the bright side. Be positive loodaloo😅

Lol try the military

why

Meh depression is nothing new for me unfortunately

Not me applying this cycle and watching this 🤡💀

Ok

Wow 1 in 9…

1 in 1 people didn’t ask

Bullied issue

😭😭

*People talking about depression and stress* Me:wtf r his socks

My son wants to go, but I think I’m going to try to discourage him.

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Long timee no seee!! Its lovely to see you back🤩🤍🤩🤍 @JakeGoodmanMD