How Medical Students Aid Each Other in the Quest for Well-Being

Published on August 4, 2022

Medical student wellness requires numerous resources. One of those assets is proving to be the students themselves.

With an understanding of that, medical schools are beginning to increase formal peer-to-peer wellness programs.

“We work very hard to understand the student perspective, as faculty,” said Lee Rosen, PhD, associate dean for students at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont (UVM). “But there's parts of that perspective that are best understood by people who have gone through it recently.”

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