Adverse Childhood Experiences in Medical Students: Implications for Wellness.

Andres F SciollaMichael S WilkesErin J Griffin

Published in: Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry (2019)

A sizeable minority of medical students reported exposure to multiple ACEs. If replicated, findings suggest a significant vulnerability of these medical students to health risk behaviors and physical and mental health problems during training and future medical practice.

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