Personality Change During Medical Residency

All portuguese medical (first year) residents will be invited to participate in the study (target population).

Targeted enrollment stategies will be used to recruit participants (individual invitation emails). Also, the study will be disclosed in some social networks. The research team has created a proper email account (personalidade.internato@gmail.com) to answer any questions and to change email with the participants of the study.

To those who accepted and consent to participate (study population), it will be send the online link to create a confidential account and access (and to give answers to the questionnaires).

Inclusion Criteria:

• Medical residents with ages between 23 and 45 years old, attending the first year of medical specialty in Portugal in the following specialties*: General Surgery, Neurosurgery; Orthopedics; Intern Medicine, Gastroenterology; Cardiology; Rheumatology; Endocrinology; Oncology; Intensive Medicine; Pediatric; Radiology; Clinical Pathology; Neurology and Psychiatry.
• Acceptance and commitment to participate in the study.
• Signature of study' informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Attendance, during the study, in an international formative stage with a duration superior to 12 months.
• Previous attendance of other medical specialty for more than one year.
• Present or past history of major psychiatry disorders (illicit drug abuse with dependence, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder)