Let’s Talk More about Our Mental Health in Medical School

Medical students talk openly about their mental health challenges.

1348 CMAJ, December 8, 2015, 187(18) ©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors A group of medical students at Western University in London, Ontario, is getting pro active about helping classmates with an extremely sensitive issue: mental health problems. Late last term, 60 students — about a fifth of all the 260 firstand second-year students at the London campus of the Schulich School of Medic...

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