REK ID: 2013/2408
Background: The aim of the medical school curriculum is to graduate knowledgeable, skillful and professional physicians. However, some aspects of the training may have unintended negative effects on medical students mental and emotional health, that can undermine these intentions. There last study on health and wellbeing among Norwegian medical students (NORDOC) was commenced 20 years ago. Since then the rate of female students have increased, study courses have changed, and there is an ongoing revision of the curriculum at all four Norwegian medical faculties. In addition, there are few studies on how different curriculums and study conditions affects contentment, satisfaction, stress, health and wellbeing among medical students.
Objective: To investigate the relationship between curriculum contents, individual and contextual factors, and health and wellbeing among medical students. To compare medical faculties with different curricula (traditional and integrated) and study conditions and any changes over the last 10 and 20 years.
Method: Baseline survey data from all medical students at two faculties of four medical schools in Norway (Bergen and Trondheim, N= 1034). Data was collected in 2015 (113 items) an included several validated instruments to enable comparison with data from previous and concurrent national and international projects.
