Problems of medical students in India

A sample of 505 medical students from five medical colleges with urban and regional environmental settings was selected. The subjects belonged to three groups: (1) students having covered only 3-4 months in college; (2) students exceeding 18 months in college; and (3) interns (students having graduated). A comparison was made between male and female students belonging to high and low socio-economic status groups from both urban as well as regional colleges separately. Findings suggest that in urban colleges males report significantly more problems than females in areas like: courtship, sex and marriage; morals and religion; adjustment to college work; and curriculum and teaching procedure. In regional colleges, males as compared with females reveal significantly more problems in areas like: finance, living conditions and employment; courtship, sex and marriage; home and family; the future: vocational and educational matters; and curriculum and teaching procedure.