I was very moved by the revelation that a medical student committed suicide in April 2013 at Wake Forest School of Medicine: Kaitlyn Elkins (RIP). She had finished her 2nd year of MD school and was about to start her clinical rotations.
Her mother has lovingly posted on SDN about the death of her daughter, which many of us "mourned" as best we could on SDN without even knowing her. It moved many us.
It got me to think alot about the students in my school and I wondered who else was having a very difficult time mentally, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, etc. So I created this profile to start looking at what medical school does to us medical students, how we can cope as individuals, support each other, and/or reach out for assistance in what ever way necessary: talking to a professor, seeing the Dean, meeting with a religious cleric, confiding in a classmate, going home to talk to family, etc.
If you are comfortable in talking about your own personal struggles in medical school in an effort to help others here, this might be an opportunity to do so. There is alot of insight to be gathered from SDN. Let's create a safe environment here to talk about our mental health in medical school
Shalom
Her mother has lovingly posted on SDN about the death of her daughter, which many of us "mourned" as best we could on SDN without even knowing her. It moved many us.
It got me to think alot about the students in my school and I wondered who else was having a very difficult time mentally, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, etc. So I created this profile to start looking at what medical school does to us medical students, how we can cope as individuals, support each other, and/or reach out for assistance in what ever way necessary: talking to a professor, seeing the Dean, meeting with a religious cleric, confiding in a classmate, going home to talk to family, etc.
If you are comfortable in talking about your own personal struggles in medical school in an effort to help others here, this might be an opportunity to do so. There is alot of insight to be gathered from SDN. Let's create a safe environment here to talk about our mental health in medical school
Shalom