Comment on “How to Cope with the Challenges of Medical Education? Stress, Depression, and Coping in Undergraduate Medical Students”

Stress, Depression, and Coping in Undergraduate Medical Students” [1] provides crucial insights into the challenges of medical education in terms of its detrimental effects on mental health and evaluates the various coping strategies that students utilize. The Stress and Coping Inventory (SCI) [2] and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) [3] have been proven to be reliable in detecting mental health issues and are used frequently in general practice and primary care settings. Caution must be taken when interpreting these results, however, owing to the disproportionately smaller sample size of the year 6 medical students and a potential confounder that students who are less resilient tend to drop out early on, thus resulting in a cohort that has a greater proportion of mentally strong individuals at the end of the course.