Stress, Stressors and Undergraduate Students: A Mini-Review

Abstract

Stressors are defined as personal and environmental experiences which result in stress. Universities are considered as excellent centers for education, yet some students fail to benefit due to various reasons.^[1] Education is one of the basic needs and in turn a right of all human beings. Student life has many benefits, but it also imposes inexorable stress. The environment of medical education and practice has long been considered a stressful one. ^[2] Stress in medical students is not uncommon and is process orientated. After entering a medical college, a student for the first-time experience so closely so many peoples ‘joy as during child birth and sorrow as during death of a patient in a place which may cause some emotional disturbance to the student also for the beginning phases of student life.^[3] In this review, we have tried to gauge some of the reasons behind it and caste a glance on the various studies conducted so far. Though we have tried majorly to include researches pertaining to Stress and stressor amongst medical students across the globe, we have also evaluated the role of stress in other faculties too. A few introductory remarks on role of parents in coping with this burning issue along with concept of Burnout have also been incorporated.