Warning: residency can make you depressed

i_wanna_be_Brown
Fri, 11 Dec 2015 19:06:31 +0000

Since 25% of residents are foreign medical school grads, they are dealing with culture shock, distance from home (many lived at or near home through college and medical school and had a ready support system at hand), many are located in ‘less desirable’ locations/specialties - and the stress that if it goes poorly, they will not have other options in the US. I would therefore expect to see much higher rates of depression in foreign medical grads than in the US grad population.

The non american citizen foreign medical graduates are under 1/8th of the residents, not 1/4 (3641/26252). The number that is closer to 25% is the number of residents who graduated from foreign medical schools, but roughly half of those people are american citizens.