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How to immunize yourself against medical school burnout

A panel of physicians from various career stages offered tips for handling the stresses of medicine, as a medical student and throughout your career.

Med Student Health
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How often do physicians and medical students die of suicide?

That’s a key question without a crystal clear answer. The AMA will examine the matter.

Physician Health
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AMA efforts aimed at preventing medical student and physician suicide

The AMA adopted policy today aimed at better understanding the incidence of depression and suicide among physicians and physicians-in-training.

Press Releases
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4 steps to creating an effective physician well-being program

By using evidence-based interventions, health systems, practices and medical schools can create meaningful wellness programs to combat burnout.

Physician Health
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5 more medical schools join innovative medical education consortium

Navigating digital health and addressing social determinants of health are among the goals of pathbreaking projects the schools bring to the AMA’s effort to reshape medical education.

ChangeMedEd Initiative
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Medical students feeling burned out get a hotline for help

A peer support phone line provided a low-cost accessible solution aimed at relieving the stress of medical school. Learn how students are helping other students.

Med Student Health
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How to spend your final free summer as a med student

Following your first year of medical school, what should you do with the last unstructured block of time you’ll experience for years?

Med Student Health
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Medical school burnout: How to take care of yourself

How can medical students best practice self-care during medical school? A psychiatric expert weighs in, and medical students offer their hard-won advice.

Med Student Health
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What medical students need to know about self-care

Medical school is inherently demanding and can be at times overwhelming. Learn to take care of yourself while on the road to serving others.

Med Student Health