A team of US researchers has found that medical students especially who are young single and under high debt are twice as likely to abuse alcohol than their peers who are not attending medical school. Burnout factors such as emotional exhaustion or feelings of depersonalisation were highly associated with alcohol abuse or dependence among the medical students. Our findings clearly show there is reason for concern said Liselotte Dyrbye from Mayo Clinic in the US. We recommend institutions pursue a multifaceted solution to address related issues with burnout the cost of medical education and alcohol abuse Dyrbye added in the
