"Medical students" burn out – need of student mentor and support groups and emotional resilience skills training to be a part of medical school curriculum

• Main Authors: Shoaib M, Afzal A, Aadil M
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dove Medical Press 2017-02-01
• Series: Advances in Medical Education and Practice
• Subjects: medical student; well-being; psychological distress; personality
• Online Access: https://www.dovepress.com/quotmedical-studentsquot-burn-out-ndash-need-of-student-mentor-and-sup-peer-reviewed-article-AMEP

Maria Shoaib,1 Anoshia Afzal,1 Muhammad Aadil,2 1Department of Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan; 2Department of Psychiatry, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA We would like to applaud the authors of the article “Potential predictors of psychological distress and well-being in medical students: a cross-sectional pilot study” for conducting a cross-sectional pilot study to understand the predictors of psychological distress and well-being and for assessing their extent using latest scales that have not been extensively used for this purpose before.1 We would like to add some views in its support. View the original paper by Bore and colleagues.