Resource topic: Learning Environment
A Comprehensive Medical Student Wellness Program – Design and Implementation at Vanderbilt School of Medicine

In response to high levels of burnout and mental illness in medical schools, students and administrators at Vanderbilt School of Medicine developed the Vanderbilt...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Relationship of Pass/Fail Grading and Curriculum Structure with Well-Being Among Pre-Clinical Medical Students: A Multi-Institutional Study

The following study in Academic Medicine examines the relationships between curriculum structures, grading scales, and student well-being. Survey results as well as...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Implementation of Small-Group Reflection Rounds at An Emergency Medicine Residency Program

Published in Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine, the following article describe the implementation of Emergency Medicine Reflection Rounds (EMRR), a novel...

Article
Teaching Physicians to Get a Break on a Burdensome Task

The following article reports on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' new policy, which eliminates the need to re-do medical students' input to health...

Article
SIGECAPS, SSRIs, and Silence — Life as a Depressed Med Student

Michael R. Rose shares his battle with depression as a medical student -- the signs and symptoms that he had trouble identifying and admitting to himself. He sheds...

Personal Stories
Stress and Well-Being of Junior Doctors in Australia: a Comparison with American Doctors and Population Norms

The following study describes compares stress levels of junior medical officers (JMOs, analogous to interns in the US) to predecessors, American surgical residents...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Risk and Resilience Factors Associated with Resident Burnout

Published in Academic Psychiatry, the following study investigates hypothesized risk and resilience factors of burnout in first year medicine and psychiatry...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Finding the sweet spot: Developing, implementing and evaluating a burn out and compassion fatigue intervention for third year medical trainees

The article highlights the development and evaluation of a burnout and compassion fatigue (CF) program for third year trainees at a Canadian Medical School. Results...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Doctors’ health. Researching students’ well-being

This letter, published in the British Medical Journal, discloses how a London medical school withdrew its support for a study examining the frequency of mental...

Opinion Piece/Short Communication
Designing and implementing a resiliency program for family medicine residents

This report, published in the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, describes resiliency program for family medicine residents in a medium sized U.S....

Report