Medical School Strategies to Address Student Well-Being: A National Survey

Dyrbye, Liselotte N.; Sciolla, Andrés F; Dekhtyar, Michael; Rajasekaran, Senthil; Allgood, J. Aaron; Rea, Margaret; Knight, Allison P.; Haywood, Antwione; Smith, Stephen R.; Stephens, Mark B.

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“…Moreover, research studies in the United States seem to indicate that females students, as compared to their male counterparts, appear to be more vulnerable to burnouts (Abeysekera and Dawson, ; Luthar, ; Yan et al, ; McLuckie et al, ). This has been proposed to be due to a greater propensity of females to internalize depressive feelings (Delany et al, ; Kenney et al, ) and experience increased generalized anxiety (Kessler, ; Dyrbye et al, ; Liao et al, ; Dyrbye et al, ).…”

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Stimulating Intrinsic Motivation in Millennial Students: A New Generation, a New Approach

Chaudhuri

2019

Anatomical Sciences Ed

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There has been a fundamental change in health care pedagogy to address the demands and challenges posed by the present generation of millennial students. There is also a growing recognition of the role of intrinsic motivation as a catalyst in a positive learning experience. The term intrinsic motivation refers to energizing behavior that comes from within an individual and develops due to an inherent interest in the activity at hand. However, stimulating intrinsic motivation in the present generation of millennial health care students is a daunting task, considering their diverse and disparate nature. In addition, the inherent generational differences between educators and students, and an increasing emphasis on technological tools have resulted in a dichotomy in the educational environment leading to the development of a greater incidence of burnouts among students. Hence, numerous innovative techniques have been introduced in health care education to enhance the levels of intrinsic motivation in these students. Unfortunately, most of these approaches have only been moderately successful due to their limited ability to address the unique educational expectations of millennial students. The cumulative evidence suggests that specific approaches to stimulate intrinsic motivation should aim at nurturing the learning efforts of students, bridging the generational barriers between educators and students, and ameliorating the stress associated with health care education. Hence, the specific aim of this narrative review is to suggest empirically proven curricular strategies and institutional reforms to enhance intrinsic motivation in health care students belonging to the Millennial Generation.

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Stimulating Intrinsic Motivation in Millennial Students: A New Generation, a New Approach

Chaudhuri

2019

Anatomical Sciences Ed

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“…Medical student mental health is a topic of increasing concern as burnout rates and depression have been on the rise [1]. Moreover, poor mental wellness outcomes among physicians in the workplace are becoming more prevalent.…”

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Variation of stress levels, burnout, and resilience throughout the academic year in first-year medical students

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Medical student wellness is of great concern in the health care field. A growing number of studies point to increases in suicide, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and burnout related to physician lifestyles. Mental health issues commencing in medical school have been suggested to have a significant impact on future physician lifestyle and burnout. Tracking the mental health of medical students at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences (UTCOMLS) with standardized indices will help elucidate triggers of poor mental health. Anonymous surveys were developed and distributed to preclinical medical students at five strategic time points throughout the 2018 2019 academic year. Surveys collected basic demographic information as well as inventories measuring perceived stress, burnout, resilience, and mindfulness. 172 M1s (83 males and 89 females) were included in the study and average response rate for the first 4 (out of 5) surveys averaged 74.8%. M1 males and females had on average increased personal burnout over time with females consistently scoring higher. Both males and females had an increase in stress from August to each subsequent month (p<0.05). Females reported a higher level of perceived stress than males in the beginning and middle of the academic year (p<0.05). Both males and females report a gradual decrease in resiliency throughout the academic year. These surveys demonstrated over half of males and females in medical school reported higher perceived stress scores than their gender-matched peers in the general United States population. Our study strengthens documented trends in resiliency, perceived stress, and burnout amongst medical students. More study in designing targeted approaches to ameliorate these findings in the medical student population is warranted.

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“…Medical schools have been tasked with addressing concerns around student wellbeing [1,2]. Compared with their peers in the general population, medical students experience substantially higher levels of psychological distress throughout the course of their studies [3,4].…”

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Students’ perceptions of learning environment and their leisure-time exercise in medical school: Does sport background matter?

2020

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Introduction The effectiveness of medical school efforts in addressing suboptimal student wellbeing rests, in part, on how students perceive their learning environment. The study aim was to determine whether students' sport background was a contributing factor in students' perceptions of the medical program as supportive of their basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. We also examined the relationship between sport background and students' leisure-time exercise in medical school. Methods Using an online questionnaire, quantitative data were collected from students enrolled in the 4-year medical program at a large Canadian university. Two hundred (n = 200) students had complete responses on the measures used in the study. Analysis of variance and correlational analysis were used to examine the relationships between students' sport background, their perceptions of the learning environment, and leisure-time exercise in medical school. Results Compared with students with no sport background, students with a team sport background perceived their need for relatedness to be satisfied to a greater degree in the medical program. Students who pursued sports at higher levels of involvement (competitively) perceived the medical program as more autonomy-supportive than students who pursued sports at lower levels of involvement (recreationally). Irrespective of their sport background, students'

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Medical School Strategies to Address Student Well-Being: A National Survey

Cited by 93 publications

References 47 publications

Stimulating Intrinsic Motivation in Millennial Students: A New Generation, a New Approach

Stimulating Intrinsic Motivation in Millennial Students: A New Generation, a New Approach

Variation of stress levels, burnout, and resilience throughout the academic year in first-year medical students

Students’ perceptions of learning environment and their leisure-time exercise in medical school: Does sport background matter?

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