In this study, first year medical students and undergraduate students were evaluated for their risk of burnout. They analyzed a number of hemodynamic and autonomic markers that seem to suggest that school burnout is linked with sub-optimal physiologic function and could potentially increase cardiovascular risk in medical students. School burnout as defined by the article is "school-related stress conceptualized as chronic exhaustion from school-related work, cynicism toward the meaning of school and a belief of inadequacy in school related accomplishment." In the future the authors suggest that it may be beneficial to evaluate cardiac health in order to evaluate stress within this population. We thought it may be interesting to perform a longitudinal study that monitors cardiac health after first year of medical school, first year of residency, and completion of residency.

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Group D: Aaron Brenner, Adam Bernardi, Crystal Booker, and Owen Brewer

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