Enhancing self-care education amongst medical students: a systematic scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reports of emotional, existential and moral distress amongst medical students witnessing death and suffering of patients during their clinical postings have raised awareness on the need for better psycho-emotional support during medical school. Furthermore, the stress experienced by medical students stemming from the rigours of their academic curriculum underlines the need for greater awareness on mental health issues and better self-care practices across medical training. With such programmes lacking in most medical schools, we propose a systematic scoping review (SSR) to map and address our research question, "what is known about self-care education interventions amongst medical students?".

Methods

We adopted the Systematic Evidence-Based Approach to guide a sys

SUBMITTER: Wan DWJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10773141 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature