Recent surveys show that many people who have left medical school

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Recent surveys show that many people who have left medical school before graduating suffer from depression. Clearly, depression is likely to cause withdrawal from medical school.

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion above?

A. Many medical schools provide psychological counseling for their students.

B. About half of those who leave medical school report feeling depressed after they make the decision to leave.

C. Depression is very common among management consultants who have a similarly difficult work schedule to those of many young doctors.

D. Medical students who have sought depression counseling due to family problems leave at a higher rate than the national average.

E. Career change has been shown to be a strong contributing factor in the onset of depression.

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Purnank · Answer

IMO D.

Conclusion - depression is likely to cause withdrawal from medical school.

Medical students who have  sought depression counseling due to family problems  leave at a higher rate than the national average. - This indicates that students already dealing with depression which supports the conclusion.

Sukrit_08 · Answer

IMO D
A - Out of context, doesn't tell what are the effects of counselling.
B - Supports the notion that dropping out of medical school is a cause of depression.
C - Again out of context, doesn't relate how management consultants are related to doctors dropping out of school.
D - Takes a particular case of depression and show that they leave their school at a higher rate than average.
E - Supports the notion that dropping out of medical school is a cause of depression.

Shwarma · Answer

Option B?

A- too vague 
B- chose from the elimination of others- tbh
C- Unrelated
D- too specific,?? like what about others who have sought counselling for other reasons?, what % of this is the total drop outs? -- to many questions unanswered is what I felt
E-Unrelated.

HarishD · Answer

IMO: D

Recent surveys show that many people who have left medical school before graduating suffer from depression. Clearly, depression is likely to cause withdrawal from medical school.

Conclusion: Depression cause withdrawal from Med school.

Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion above?

A. Many medical schools provide psychological counseling for their students.  Irrelevant

B. About half of those who leave medical school report feeling depressed after they make the decision to leave.  Opposite of conclusion

C. Depression is very common among management consultants who have a similarly difficult work schedule to those of many young doctors.  Comparison, Irrelevant

D. Medical students who have sought depression counseling due to family problems leave at a higher rate than the national average.    Supports conclusion

E. Career change has been shown to be a strong contributing factor in the onset of depression.  Opposite of conclusion

imaityaroy · Answer

Hi 
Can someone please help me understand why B is wrong
Decision to leave does not mean they have withdrawn. 
It could be the case that decision to leave made them depressed but they left after being depressed hence depression caused withdrawal.

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Bunuel · Answer

KAPLAN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

D

Conclusion: Depression causes withdrawal from medical school.

Evidence: Many students who have left medical school are depressed. This assumes that people who begin suffering from depression while in medical school are more likely to leave school than those who don't. The choice that validates this assumption will be the one that most strengthens the argument.

(A) is irrelevant; the counseling provided may or may not be for depression. (B) and (E) support a link between depression and leaving, but in both cases, the depression comes after the decision to leave. That's the opposite of what the argument says. (C) is out of scope since we're discussing medical students, not young doctors or consultants. (D) suggests that when some outside event has brought on depression, leaving becomes more likely in the period subsequent to the depression. This confirms that students who are depressed while in school are more likely to drop out.

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