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Source: The post is based on the article “Many medical students under stress: study” published in The Hindu on 3rd April 2023
What is the News?
A Right to Information(RTI) response from National Medical Commission(NMC) said that 64 MBBS and 55 postgraduate medicos died by suicide in the last five years.
What is the data on suicides among medical students?
The risk of suicide among doctors is almost 2.5 times more than the general population.
According to a study, 358 suicide deaths among medical students (125), residents (105) and physicians (128) were reported between 2010 and 2019. Around seven out of 10 suicides took place before the age of 30.
Female residents and physicians were younger than their male counterparts at the time of suicide.
Reasons: Academic stress among medical students (45.2%) and residents (23.1%), and marital discord among physicians (26.7%) were the most noticeable reasons for suicide.
– Mental ill-health was the next most common reason among medical students(24%) and physicians (20%), while harassment (20.5%) was a cause for residents.
What are the steps taken to address suicides among medical students?
In 2022, the National Medical Commission(NMC) formed an anti-ragging committee to resolve complaints forwarded by anti-ragging committees of different medical colleges. The members were instructed to meet once every month to take up the ragging complaints and undertake an independent enquiry.
