Medical Students and COVID-19: Challenges and Supportive Strategies

doi:10.1177/2382120520935059

. 2020 Jun 24:7:2382120520935059.

doi: 10.1177/2382120520935059. eCollection 2020 Jan-Dec.

Medical Students and COVID-19: Challenges and Supportive Strategies

Sonal Chandratre¹

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PMID: 32637642
PMCID: PMC7315659
DOI: 10.1177/2382120520935059

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Medical Students and COVID-19: Challenges and Supportive Strategies

Sonal Chandratre. J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2020.

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. 2020 Jun 24:7:2382120520935059.

doi: 10.1177/2382120520935059. eCollection 2020 Jan-Dec.

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Sonal Chandratre¹

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¹ Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Central Wisconsin Regional Medical Campus, Wausau, WI, USA.

PMID: 32637642
PMCID: PMC7315659
DOI: 10.1177/2382120520935059

Abstract

As coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to spread across the world, it is also adversely affecting medical student education. In addition, COVID-19 poses several challenges to medical students' physical and mental health and their professional identity formation. Medical students are experiencing increasing anxiety due to the COVID-19 disruption. Medical students show higher rates of depression, suicidal ideation, and stigmatization around depression and are less likely to seek support. It is therefore important to safeguard their mental health and implement effective strategies to support their educational, physical, mental, and professional well-being.

Keywords: Medical student education; medical student mental health; medical student mental health supportive strategies.

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Declaration of conflicting interests:The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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