Medical students describe their wellness and how to preserve it.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite widespread efforts to create wellness programming in medical schools, there is a paucity of literature examining students' perception of wellness and perceptions of these programs. With the inaugural class at the Arizona campus of Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine (MCASOM-AZ), an opportunity arose to establish an empirically evaluated wellness curriculum that most inclusively and effectively enables medical students to flourish for years to come. The initial wellness offerings included mental health, academic success, and disability services, curriculum-embedded seminars, wellness committee driven programming, and student-proposed wellness activities. We aimed to improve the relevance and impact of medical school wellness curricula by soliciting in-depth and lo

SUBMITTER: Chatterjee K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9241274 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature