My White Coat
Keenan Hogan This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Egg shell coat: Tread softly, Quietly. To not crack the illusion Of knowledge, Bold aspirations. Short coat: Stand tall, Noticeable....
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Aishwarya Rajagopalan This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Have you ever spent a night curled up in a ball of blankets rocking yourself, tears streaming down your cheeks, just wishing...
View ArticleAnother Look at the Antidepressant “Myth”
Mariam Bonyadi This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Within the next three years, ketamine, the popular club drug referred to as “Special K,” may replace the current generation of...
View ArticleDealing With Depression in Medical School
Lindsey McDaniel This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. One of the things that I have struggled with most in medical school is depression. Not learning to recognize, diagnose or treat...
View ArticleWhere Can Doctors Turn For Help?
Karishma Bhatt This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Most medical schools across the United States have free counselors, wellness seminars, group talks and other resources available to...
View ArticleSlow Down, Reflect, Recover
Diem Vu This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. For most medical students, the third year of medical school is their introduction to life in the hospital. This not only in exciting...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Talk About Mental Health: A Response to Depression and Suicide...
Aishwarya Rajagopalan This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. As medical students we’re told over and over to treat the whole patient, emphasizing unity of body, mind and spirit,...
View ArticleWhat Emma’s Mattress Means for Medicine
Jes Minor This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. I am a medical student, yes. I am also a survivor of sexual violence. With the recent Columbia University commencement, the surge of...
View ArticleA Heartfelt Chat
Yan Leyfman This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Digital photography. Dimensions: 2850 x 1917. Friendship is a powerful force that offers one celebration in one’s happiest moments,...
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Editorial: A Call for Action on Mental Health in Medical Students
Lindsey McDaniel This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. Editor’s note: Lindsey McDaniel and Angelica D’Aiello write this editorial on behalf of the in-Training Editorial Board. On March...
View ArticleResilience in Medical Education: Defining Burnout and How Role Models Can Help
Rae Dong This piece is part of in-Training Mental Health Week. In the fall of my first year, barely a week into my new life as a medical student, I met an old friend from college who had recently...
View ArticleIntroduction to in-Training Mental Health Week 2016: A Letter from the...
Joe Ladowski My medical school, Indiana University, is one of the largest in the country with over 300 students in each graduating class. Sadly, each year it seems we lose one of our classmates to...
View ArticleAdventure #1: Not Your Mother’s Yoga Class
Neha Kumar 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...
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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...
View ArticleOwning My Story
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...
View ArticleWidening the Discussion of Mental Health in Medical School and Beyond
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...
View ArticlePoker Face: When Patients Are Dealt Terrible Hands
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 ArticleHow Depression Revived My Passion for Medicine: Using the Lows to Leap High...
When we enter medical school, we bring with us high hopes, dreams, ambition and a passion to help those in need. We radiate vibrant energy and have an insatiable thirst for knowledge. In many ways, we...
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