Abstract: The psychological aspects that permeate the medical training process gained visibility and started to be studied and debated in several countries due to the peculiarities that surround it. The causes of psychological distress that affect medical students are due to a combination of factors, whose environment proves to be stressful, competitive and demanding even in the selection process for entering the university, passing through undergraduate courses in its different phases. Considering the various contextual elements that may incur psychological distress in this process, in order to carry out this research, we sought to listen to the individual experiences of seven medical students, through the realization of a focus group, in which the procedure Situated Structure Phenomenon Analyses was used to assist in understanding and deepening the researched phenomenon. The research is of a qualitative nature and the research method used was the phenomenological, based on Heidegger's phenomenological-existential ontology. Aspects such as frustration of expectations, information density, competitiveness, course structure and student-teacher relationship were identified as factors associated with psychological distress among these students.