Mavor et al. in this issue of Medical Education, describe a working model elucidating how medical students become either stressed or strengthened during the demanding years that lead them towards fulfilling the longed-for goal of becoming a doctor. The model focuses on the inner circle of the medical student's life. He or she is depicted as being on a continuum of self-complexity, in the midst of forming a medical student identity, while being exposed to medical school social norms.
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