Health and Wellness
Kate Bock This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Medical schools and hospitals across the nation proudly claim to be “starting a conversation” about mental health in medicine. I could...
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in-Training Administrator This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. I have always toyed with the idea that I may have depression. Numerous times I looked over the various depression...
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Kathleen Tzan This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. I was up late in the midst of an intense infectious disease cram session when my phone buzzed alive. Glancing down at the light of my...
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David Yu This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Card playing has never been my forte — perhaps it’s my inability to compute complex math, or my failure to decipher my opponent’s...
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This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Dear all, If you remember, about one year ago I had published a story about coming to terms with my mental illness on in-Training. Soon thereafter,...
View ArticleAdventure #9: Slip, Slide, Stumble (A Lot)
This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Despite the fact that it’s fairly warm for this time of year, I was feeling in the spirit to try a winter-themed activity that wouldn’t require...
View ArticleThe Dragon: On Coming to Understand My Mental Health During Medical School
This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Editor’s note: The author’s identity has been withheld by the Editorial Board due to the sensitive nature of the article. During our psychiatry...
View ArticleOn Asian Americans and Mental Health
This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Growing up in an Asian-American immigrant household, I frequently encountered and grappled with my parents’ reserved manner of expressing...
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My Own Little Ice Age
This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. I can finally say I’m in my last year of medical school. It has been a bumpy ride, but only one clerkship, a research project and an OSCE separate...
View ArticleAdventure #1: Not Your Mother’s Yoga Class
This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. It should be no surprise that when I asked my fellow medical students their suggestions for ways to de-stress, one of the first answers I heard...
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