Medical students perceive their health much better than other university students do, but female, older and second grade medical students have worse perception of their HRQoL. Those points should be potential target areas for specific prevention and treatment in order to achieve better HRQoL.

Presented patient, as well as most other patients with MM progressing to CN Sinfiltration was in the stage III. In addition to the detailed clinical examination, and all investigations required for MM diagnosis and staging of the disease, we introduced the additional CSF examination and calculation of kappa lambda ratio, that helped us make an early diagnosis and prognosis of MM with LMM. Although LMM had a low prevalence, it could be more frequent than expected especially in patients with high risk. CSF examination with positive plasma cells and abnormal morphology remains the hallmark for diag nosing CNS infiltration.

Aim:to assess the subjective perception of HRQoL in medical students’ sample; andto ascertain predictors of better perception of HRQoL in medical students.Methods:We have assessed and compared scores of Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), used for the assessment of HRQoL in sample of 561 medical students and 332 control participants. Also, we have used linear regression to identify predictors of better perception of HRQoL in the sample of medical students.Results:The results indicate that medical students had statistically significantly higher total score of SF-36. The statistically significant predictors of better perception of HRQoL in medical students were: male gender, younger age and higher grade year of studies and non-medical students was male gender. The other sociodemographic and academic variables did not emerge as possible predictors of better perception of HRQoL.Conclusions:Medical students perceive their health much better than other university students do but female, older and second year medical students have worse perception of their HRQoL. In non-medical university students females had worse perception of their HRQoL. Those points should be potential target areas for specific prevention and treatment in order to achieve better quality of life of medical students and life of nonmedical students.

IntroductionMedical education could contribute to the lower appraisal of quality of life in student population.ObjectiveThe aim of the study was to estimate the predictors of higher subjective perception of quality of life among medical students, i.e., to identify association between certain sociodemographic and academic characteristics of students and quality of life.MethodSample consisted of 310 medical students of Belgrade University. We used sociodemographic questionnaire and Flanagan Quality of Life Scale (QOLS) for assessment of the subjective perception of quality of life across five categories and fifteen scale items.ResultsIn medical students’ population, the predictor variable of worse perception of quality of life was a failed year (F = 2,30, p < 0,05). The other features of study participants (gender, age, grade year, average grade, marital status, parenthood and place of living) were not in a correlation with quality of life.ConclusionThere is a need for maintenance and improvement of quality of life among medical students in order to create competent physicians.