Healing Medicine's Future: Prioritizing Physician Trainee Mental Health.
In this article, we discuss current perceptions of the model physician and how these perceptions conflict with stressful realities of training environments and contribute to the staggering rates of burnout and depression faced by medical students and residents. We suggest a multi-tiered interventional approach to address these problems, with innovations for individual trainees, programs, institutions, and the health care system. Finally, we discuss the medical community's ethical obligations to ensure that it is appropriately and thoughtfully investing in the wellness of medicine's next generations of practitioners.
Clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and the director of the University of Michigan Medical Student Mental Health and House Officer Mental Health programs.
Kathryn
K
Baker
Associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and the principal investigator of the Intern Health Study.
Srijan
S
Sen
D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D012577:Schools, Medical / Q000941:ethics*; D012941:Social Responsibility; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*