Danilo de Assis Pereira

Resiliência em estudantes de medicina ao longo do curso de graduação

Objective and Method: This is a descriptive study to identify the degree of resilience in medical students at Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, compare the resilience of different years of undergraduation and relate and compare the degree of resilience to demographic and socioeconomic status. Results: The study population has an average age of 21.68, single 270 (98.18%), caucasians 240 (87.27%), household income of more than 20 minimum wages (34.54%). In resilience general index it was obtained an average of 114 (SD=14.05). There was no significant difference between the scores obtained on the scale during graduation years. It was observed a predominance of moderate resilience in all years of the course and in the total sample. Resilience in medical students, it is shown as an individual characteristic and does not keep relations with gender, age, sexual orientation, race or housing conditions in the various years of the course. Conclusion: It was concluded that there is a predominance of moderate resilience among the medical students. There was no correlation between resilience and familiar income