Prevalence to Process: Invited talk in Dundee

  The Seminar series run by the College of Medicine Dentistry and Nursing in Dundee was a wonderful opportunity to explore the implications of the self and identity process model of medical student well-being. Ken presented some of the research we have been doing on self and identity in medical student wellbeing. We argued that a more … Read more

Looking beyond personal stressors

In one of our first forays into the field of medical student stress and wellbeing, we used an extensive list of potential stressors to get a feel for what kinds of stressors had the greatest impact on wellbeing. Though it was a small sample, we still found that Academic stressors had a measurable impact on … Read more

Kathy McNeil PhD completed

Congratulations to Kathy on completing her corrections and submitting the final thesis for the award of her PhD.  Kathy’s thesis was entitled “An Investigation of Self-Structure, Social Identity and Norms in Medical Student Wellbeing” and several papers have already come out of this line of work.  Kathy’s PhD is part of our “Prevalence to Process” … Read more

Mental Health Program (Australia)

National Mental Health Survey of Doctors and Medical Students Broad surveys of medical students and doctors continue to show high levels of psychological distress. Often this is based on small local surveys, but is also supported by large scale and diverse surveys such as this one conducted by beyondblue in Australia, based on thousands of responses.  The … Read more

The Impact of the Working Time Regulations on Medical Education

Work time regulations have the potential to have an important impact on work-life balance and wellbeing in medical education and graduate training.  However, work-time is only one factor in a complex system. The 2012 report by Morrow, Burford, Carter and Illing gives a good overview of the issues of trying to implement an initiative into … Read more

Student Wellbeing – Keeping your grass greener

Keeping Your Grass Greener, the wellbeing guide for medical students is a collaboration between New Zealand Medical Students’ Association (NZMSA) and the Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) made in 2011 to assist medical students through the challenges of medical school.  Download your copy here. Also, see the NZMSA Keeping your grass greener video and also, the NZMSA … Read more