ArticleJNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association2024
Medical Student Syndrome and Imposter Syndrome: Are They Real?
Article in JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Surgeon's imposter syndrome: a systematic review.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Medical student syndrome: a bayesian reasoning failure.BMC medical education · 2026Observational
- Identifying predictors of student depression through validated machine learning pipelines.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Heterogeneity in health anxiety among medical students and HPV testing acceptability: the mediating role of eHealth literacy from a person-centered perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Imposter Syndrome in Dentistry: Prevalence, Contributing Factors, and Educational Implications: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2025Review
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Abstract
abstractMedical Student Syndrome and imposter syndrome are rampant in the medical profession, especially among young medical students. Medical Student Syndrome, also known as the third-year syndrome is a hypochondriacal concern in inexperienced medical students regarding the disease they are studying. Usually, it arises as a result of incomplete knowledge about the disease and regular exposure to new information about diseases. Imposter syndrome, on the other hand, refers to the behavioral pattern where medical students doubt their abilities and are constantly afraid of being exposed as a fraud. Imposter syndrome might occur due to unrealistic expectations in this highly competitive medical profession.
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