Grantee Spotlight | Kansas City University's THRIVE program aims to teach resiliency for future doctors

Published on April 10, 2023

Grantee Kansas City University led by Carlton Abner, DNP, were highlighted on their local news last month! The article describes their THRIVE program and had some great feedback from students, like Christian (an MS2) below:

"Before the THRIVE program, I felt like I just would've said, 'well OK, tired Christian, you got a suck it up, keep going, put the best foot forward. You can't show any weakness to anybody.' But no, it's definitely OK."

Read more here.

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