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t t ch ou number of issues concerning the various ways students well as through the current social setting [1]. Sandover et al. BMC Medical Education (2015) 15:5 DOI 10.1186/s12909-015-0284-7the development of the individual’s understanding [4]. In contrast, when students adopt a surface approach, Australia Full list of author information is available at the end of the articlecan learn and cope with the stresses of study. A review of the literature on medical students ’ learning approaches, stress levels, and ways of coping revealed that measuring these processes is complex and can be influenced by many factors. Each of these areas is presented. Entwistle, believes that when students take a deep ap-proach to their learning they relate ideas and look for patterns and principles to make meaning from what they are learning [2]. Pask also identified this as adopting a holist approach [3]. Another aspect of the deep approach to learning is to use evidence and examine the logic of an argument which, according to Pask, is known, as adopting a serialist approach [3]. Entwistle, McCune and Walker further say that the deep approach involves monitoring * Correspondence