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PHILADELPHIA - Imposter syndrome is a considerable mental health challenge to many throughout higher education. It is often associated with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem and self-sabotage and other traits. Researchers at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University wanted to learn to what extent incoming medical students displayed characteristics of imposter syndrome, and found that up to 87% of an incoming class reported a high or very high degree of imposter syndrome. Distress and mental health needs are critical issues among medical students, says Susan Rosenthal, MD, lead author of the study published in the journal
Family Medicine. This paper identifies how common imposter syndrome is, and the personality traits most associated with it, which gives us an avenue to address it.
With Vaccines Arriving, Value Investors Try for a Comeback
After years of lagging performance, practitioners of an old approach to investing are hoping their time is nigh.
A Banner Health employee prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix.Credit.Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times
Value investors have had a tough decade, with growth stocks stealing the investing show.
Overall, this year has offered little encouragement. In 2020, the Russell 1000 Growth Index returned 38.49 percent, while the Russell 1000 Value Index returned 2.8 percent, according to Morningstar.
But with vaccinations underway and the possibility of a return to something resembling normality rising, overlooked so-called value stocks have begun to show some signs of life. These are generally stocks that trade at lower price-to-earnings and price-to-book-value ratios than some investors think the companies are worth. And since Oct. 28, for example, t