Introduction Stress is one of the most misused words in the medical profession according to one Dr. Cecil Myer in a recent commentary in The Sun . Why? Because Psychiatrists have admitted being at pain at times to explain to lay men what stress really is all about. Any uncomfortable situation in life is labeled as stress. Some people even confuse boredom with stress and at times blame it for random illnesses and poor performance in school. Stress being a medical issue forms the basis of this research and the sample to be used for the purpose of the above research will be medical students in different institutions of learning. Hypothesis The question is “Are the academic related sicknesses in the medical students caused by stress that comes with the hard course that the students take or is stress caused by the hard medical course taken by the medical students? The question of whether poor academic performance among medical student’s results from stress due to the hard course they take or stress is caused by poor academic performance persists though silently among many medical researchers. In a quest to find a substantive answer to the above query we sought to conduct a research to help as conclude on this matter hypothesizing that the issue may go either way; stress causes poor academic performance among medical students or poor academic performance among medical students results into stress. Research design The kind of information required in the above research topic calls for a wide coverage of medical students in various institutions of learning who are our main specimens of observation are. In order to carry out the research efficiently and to ensure that the information obtained is reliable, we would have to select a number of students from every institution who are willing to disclose their side of view and their health status without interfering with their privacy. Again the research would call for the same medical students to allow us access their original and unaltered health reports. The idea here is to compare their health status before enrolling for the medical courses with their current medical history after they enrolled and are studying the medical course. In addition the research will also establish when the stress is high, that is, when the students perform poorly or is it caused by the fact that the medical course is hard or the perception that the medical course is hard. In doing so we shall be relying on the findings of psychiatrist Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe. In their findings on the relationship between stress and performance in medical related studies, they found out that there is a strong relationship between the two. Subsequent support and validation of their findings by other psychiatrist gave way to the use of Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale as a standard measure for stress. In our research therefore, we are to use the scale in guiding us to tell the level of medical studies that acts as a triggering tool that causes stress. In doing so a common ground has to be found as it might be hard to quantify stress. In reaching a common ground we have to admit the fact that the problems might be cyclical in that the hard medical studies followe