Open AccessMedical Students and COVID-19: Challenges and Supportive Strategies
Author(s) -
Sonal Chandratre
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of medical education and curricular development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2382-1205
DOI - 10.1177/2382120520935059
Subject(s) - mental health , covid-19 , anxiety , suicidal ideation , pandemic , depression (economics) , psychology , psychiatry , medical education , medicine , disease , suicide prevention , medical emergency , poison control , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics , virology , pathology , outbreak , macroeconomics
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.
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