| 8: Exploring Depression Amongst Undergraduate Medical Students Facilitators
John Benson & Thelma Quince - The Primary Care Unit, IPH, University of Cambridge
Workshop Description
Psychological wellbeing is important for medical students, for the patients they meet and for their future medical practice. Although the prevalence and persistence of depression amongst medical students remains unclear, there is evidence that medical students are reluctant to seek help; fearing stigma and negative impact on their career. This workshop aims to explore underlying attitudes towards and perceptions of depressed students held by faculty and students, the drivers of these and how these can be overcome to develop more effective mechanisms for mechanisms for dealing with depressed students.
Workshop Objective
Develop understanding
of: work on prevalence of depression: extent of the problem, the nature of
depression experienced: repeated or transient. Impact: extent to
which students seek help, alternative mechanisms for dealing with depressed
students. Skills: analysis of and reflection on presented vignettes. Attitudes: reflection,
raised awareness and acknowledgement of personal attitudes towards depressed
students, Raised awareness of identification of the attitudes held by others in
medical education field
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