Abstract
There is growing concern in universities about the severity of common mental disorders, which are increasingly recurrent among medical students. Such issues require the multidisciplinary involvement of both academic levels and society in general, especially due to the their associations with possible predictive factors of stress perpetuated in these students. These associations reflect the importance of discussing disorders, correlating them with the impacts evidenced by the psychic interference of those involved. One proposal reflects a debate about what was actually implemented in the university sphere to change the reality of Common Mental Disorders in medical students, focusing on depression and anxiety. From this debate, suggestions of steps to be implemented are made to minimize problems related to the potentially triggering or somatizing origins of Common Mental Disorders in students’ lives.
Patient acuity-Disease; Mental disorders; Students, medical; Universities; Depression; Anxiety