The End of DACA: What This Means for Dreamer Physicians Across America
Following the end of the DACA program, questions linger among undocumented medical residents and students now facing possible deportation.
Following the end of the DACA program, questions linger among undocumented medical residents and students now facing possible deportation.
Clinician instructors are tasked with helping medical students refine their critical thinking, empowering them to ask relevant questions, and encouraging further inquiries.
Among 159 medical students, a mean of 4.1 elements out of 11 were performed properly.
Such measures will be unsuccessful in improving students’ mental health if how performance and achievement are measured at the school is not also changed.
Stereotypes not only help keep providers with mental health issues in the closet, they also place patients at risk.
Black and Asian medical students are less likely than white medical students to be granted membership to the highly-revered AΩA.
“Ultimately, it is about culture. Efforts need to be made at all levels of medical education and training to create more supportive and nurturing educational settings.”
Environmental interventions such as pass/fail grading system and mental health programs may be beneficial.
The most common disability is ADHD, followed by learning disabilities and psychological disabilities.
The prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms and suicide ideation is 27.2 and 11.1%, respectively.