From: What do medical students think about their quality of life? A qualitative study
CATEGORY | ISSUES | EXAMPLES |
---|---|---|
Human resources | Teachers | “Some people hate school because teachers are terrible, they are not teaching and do not know how to teach.” |
Managers | “Managers do not care about our quality of life.” | |
Moral abuse | Residents and teachers | “There are arrogant teachers.” |
Demandings | Personal, familiar, institutional, and social | “The least I can do is to push myself as much as I can do.” |
“Pressure in the medical program is big.” | ||
Eating habits | Inadequate eating habits | “I learned from a resident to put lots of sugar in my coffee to curb the hunger.” |
Financial resources | Financial dependence | “You cannot work during the program; I feel bad for being dependent on my parents.” |
Lack of care with own health | Students adopt unhealthy life | “You see many medical students getting sick, being down, neglecting one's own body, unable to reflect on these things.” |
Sleep | Sleep privacy | “I want, I need to sleep. I cannot do more shifts and study.” |
Time | Demands of the program | “I think excessive workload decreases quality of life. You have class every day and then you have to study but you also have many other things in your life.” |
“In the program there’s a lack of quality of life. Lack of time to lose, to think about life, plans, dreams.” |