Reaction to Stressors: Gender Differences in Professional Students

Abstract: Stress is prevalent among medical professionals and the medical students are under significant training stress which can cause distress and influence health outcomes. The purpose of the study was to determine the gender differences in reaction to stressors in medical Education. In all, 388 male medical students and 347 from female medical students during the academic year 2014-2015 selected as a sample size for the study. The reaction to stressors measure through standardised Inventory. The result reveals that only significant differences were found in Physiological Reactions to stressors. However no significant difference of reaction to stressors was found between male and female medical students.