What to do when things hit the fan - dealing with adversity in medical school

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lukemd

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Hey guys, I’m proposing a talk for a medical student conference. If you were at a conference and saw the below description & summary, would you attend that session? Why or why not? Any feedback on how to make it more relevant, appealing, helpful? I’ll post the actual talk (and the outline of the content) on this thread when it’s finished (whether I get accepted to present at the conference or not). Thanks! (PS I posted another proposed talk here, if you're so inclined)

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Session title *

What to do when things hit the fan - dealing with adversity in medical school

session description

Objective

- tell stories about students going through difficult times to help others understand that they are not alone

- encourage those that need help to get it

- teach them when and how to get help

Description

There’s never a convenient time for tragedy, but medical school is a particularly hard period to manage unexpected life stressors. Unfortunately, “life” doesn’t stop happening just because you’re in school and need to focus right now. When things do hit you, the pressure we can feel to “hold it together” on the outside can make us feel alone. The fact is: We are not. None of us is. Every medical student goes through something that threatens to (or actually does) knock them off course in some way.

What’s important is quickly recognizing & admitting it is happening, and then getting the appropriate kind of help for it. The two biggest reasons we don’t do this are we 1) feel like our problem is too small to warrant attention or it is 2) too big to be surmountable. While neither of these responses is helpful, both of them are extremely common, and I’ll address why we have them and how to avoid them.

In this session you’ll hear personal stories & statistics about what kinds of problems medical students are going through (i.e. family issues, academic performance problems, physical health struggles, financial concerns) and how common they are. Then you’ll learn what strategies they used to get through these experiences. Finally I’ll address how to recognize when you need to reach out, as well as what resources exist for medical student with your particular problem.

Why this speaker:

During medical school, Dr. Murray experienced difficulties and failures both inside and outside the classroom. From having to repeat a year and being put on academic probation, to losing his fiancé, losing touch with his family, and being homeless, he felt, on numerous occasions like he might not be able to ‘make it’. After surviving these experiences, he’s he reached out to dozens of other medical students, interviewing them about their experiences, and understanding how they’ve persevered through adversity while in medical school.
 
Hey guys, I’m proposing a talk for a medical student conference. If you were at a conference and saw the below description & summary, would you attend that session? Why or why not? Any feedback on how to make it more relevant, appealing, helpful? I’ll post the actual talk (and the outline of the content) on this thread when it’s finished (whether I get accepted to present at the conference or not). Thanks! (PS I posted another proposed talk here, if you're so inclined)

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Session title *

What to do when things hit the fan - dealing with adversity in medical school

session description

Objective

- tell stories about students going through difficult times to help others understand that they are not alone

- encourage those that need help to get it

- teach them when and how to get help

Description

There’s never a convenient time for tragedy, but medical school is a particularly hard period to manage unexpected life stressors. Unfortunately, “life” doesn’t stop happening just because you’re in school and need to focus right now. When things do hit you, the pressure we can feel to “hold it together” on the outside can make us feel alone. The fact is: We are not. None of us is. Every medical student goes through something that threatens to (or actually does) knock them off course in some way.

What’s important is quickly recognizing & admitting it is happening, and then getting the appropriate kind of help for it. The two biggest reasons we don’t do this are we 1) feel like our problem is too small to warrant attention or it is 2) too big to be surmountable. While neither of these responses is helpful, both of them are extremely common, and I’ll address why we have them and how to avoid them.

In this session you’ll hear personal stories & statistics about what kinds of problems medical students are going through (i.e. family issues, academic performance problems, physical health struggles, financial concerns) and how common they are. Then you’ll learn what strategies they used to get through these experiences. Finally I’ll address how to recognize when you need to reach out, as well as what resources exist for medical student with your particular problem.

Why this speaker:

During medical school, Dr. Murray experienced difficulties and failures both inside and outside the classroom. From having to repeat a year and being put on academic probation, to losing his fiancé, losing touch with his family, and being homeless, he felt, on numerous occasions like he might not be able to ‘make it’. After surviving these experiences, he’s he reached out to dozens of other medical students, interviewing them about their experiences, and understanding how they’ve persevered through adversity while in medical school.
I think this is a excellent topic and your personal experiences clearly can help people going through the same things as well as those who want to learn good coping strategies before problems arise. Medical school doesn't "stop" unfortunately when things happen, so I think learning coping strategies are helpful, esp. for medical students who tend to have perfectionistic tendencies at baseline. If I were at a conference and were still in med school, I would attend.
 
Based on what I've seen, the most common problem is poor time management and procrastination, and then last minute cramming -> shutting down close to exams -> too many retakes/integratives to study adequately for in a short period of time.

I think lessons in time and money management would be beneficial to most medical students.
 
That looks good. The cover is nice but the important is the content. What are you going to do for the students in bad situations?
 
I think this is a great idea! A few of my friends/classmates have had stressful experiences thrown at them over the past two years... life doesn't stop in med school! And while some of them seemed to know how to take advantage of their resources, I can understand feeling overwhelmed and not knowing what to do, or just feeling alone and needing encouragement, so something like this could be really helpful.

If possible, I would include mental health issues and resources, since there is still a stigma but I think it's a really important/relevant topic.
 
@DermViser
“Coping strategies” will be a big part of the content. It usually implies personal psychological strategies (i.e. exercise, breath deeply & slowly, focus on the positive, etc.) which I’ll cover with a little more specificity to the medical school context (and will be supported by stories & data of its successful use by medical students). But the act of reaching out & taking advantage of resources & communities that can help is another way to “cope” that I’ll be talking a lot about as well. I hadn’t thought of stressing that term, but it’s exactly what I’m talking about, so I’ll be sure to start describing it that way. Thank you!

@Brain Bucket
Time management/procrastination is a HUGE one. Thanks! It could easily be a talk all by itself. Also, poorly managing it can definitely be the source of crappy performance, which is one of the bigger sources of stress & forms of adversity that medical students face. I’ll talk about the psychology of procrastination & how to battle it, but it will be more in the context of procrastinating taking action on the thing that is causing your life to fall apart (which might be studying...or it might be a difficult conversation with your parents...or a asking a member of the opposite sex out...or asking for help getting over an addiction, etc.). What specific money management problems do you see medical students having?

@Kahreek
Damn straight.

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@snowflakes
“Lessening feelings of inadequacy or insecurity” is a big part of what makes us procrastinate (thanks @brainbucket) addressing our problems once they happen and often can be the reason we developed said problems in the first place. I’ll talk a lot about how the shame research done by Dr. Brenee Brown has helped us understand where these feelings of inadequacy come from and techniques that people (in this case, med students) with high “shame resilience” use to overcome them.

@mirabelle
Other than what’s mentioned in the opening post as well as what I’ve mentioned above, the structure will most likely be:
- stories about students going through tough situations (What it will do for students in bad situations: they don’t feel alone or ‘damaged’ from an emotional angle)
- statistics about students going through different types of adversity (What it will do for students in bad situations: they know they aren’t alone or ‘damaged’ from an intellectual angle)
- psychological & lifestyle change techniques that have helped students get through said times (What it will do for students in bad situations: give them something they can implement themselves)
- resources students could take advantage of to get help, as well as when and how to reach out to them (What it will do for students in bad situations: inform them of resources outside of themselves that can help)​

@hmockingbird
I totally agree that mental health issues are both stigmatized & super relevant. I went through the saddest periods of my life during medical school and, though I didn’t fit a SIGECAPS screening, I really struggled to dig myself out of these holes. I won’t talk a lot about mental health issues specifically, because I only have an hour and to give that topic justice I’d need at least two hours for everything that issue encompasses, but I will talk about problems that are stigmatized, mostly because that stigma causes people to not get help (I.e. abortion, failing a test, contracting an STD, suicidal ideation), and will definitely address some resources. Thanks for the idea. I’ll definitely address it alone in a future talk/post, etc. And “feeling overwhelmed and not knowing what to do, or just feeling alone and needing encouragement” is exactly what I’m trying to address.

As far as specific content, I’ll be posting drafts as I make progress on it - regardless of whether it gets accepted or not. (just like I did with this thread)
 
Hey guys, I’m proposing a talk for a medical student conference. If you were at a conference and saw the below description & summary, would you attend that session? Why or why not? Any feedback on how to make it more relevant, appealing, helpful? I’ll post the actual talk (and the outline of the content) on this thread when it’s finished (whether I get accepted to present at the conference or not). Thanks! (PS I posted another proposed talk here, if you're so inclined)

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Session title *

What to do when things hit the fan - dealing with adversity in medical school

session description

Objective

- tell stories about students going through difficult times to help others understand that they are not alone

- encourage those that need help to get it

- teach them when and how to get help

Description

There’s never a convenient time for tragedy, but medical school is a particularly hard period to manage unexpected life stressors. Unfortunately, “life” doesn’t stop happening just because you’re in school and need to focus right now. When things do hit you, the pressure we can feel to “hold it together” on the outside can make us feel alone. The fact is: We are not. None of us is. Every medical student goes through something that threatens to (or actually does) knock them off course in some way.

What’s important is quickly recognizing & admitting it is happening, and then getting the appropriate kind of help for it. The two biggest reasons we don’t do this are we 1) feel like our problem is too small to warrant attention or it is 2) too big to be surmountable. While neither of these responses is helpful, both of them are extremely common, and I’ll address why we have them and how to avoid them.

In this session you’ll hear personal stories & statistics about what kinds of problems medical students are going through (i.e. family issues, academic performance problems, physical health struggles, financial concerns) and how common they are. Then you’ll learn what strategies they used to get through these experiences. Finally I’ll address how to recognize when you need to reach out, as well as what resources exist for medical student with your particular problem.

Why this speaker:

During medical school, Dr. Murray experienced difficulties and failures both inside and outside the classroom. From having to repeat a year and being put on academic probation, to losing his fiancé, losing touch with his family, and being homeless, he felt, on numerous occasions like he might not be able to ‘make it’. After surviving these experiences, he’s he reached out to dozens of other medical students, interviewing them about their experiences, and understanding how they’ve persevered through adversity while in medical school.

Before I do anything I ask myself “Would an idiot do that?” And if the answer is yes, I do not do that thing.
 
It's something at a medical student conference? Will anyone with an MD or from Administration be attending? I ask because these kinds of things are just the metaphorical equivalent of a circle jerk meant to have us think we're special/important/deserving of attention when it does nothing to actually help the problem. I've had to deal with enough **** that I've tried to get help with and gotten the opposite. I've learned that your problems are your problems and no one is going to help you. Especially not the school/administration. They frown upon failure and will use those shortcomings against you in the future. How is it helpful to sit around and hear that other people have these problems without the people who are supposed to be helping us NOT being there?

In the end - I believe it's not worth any time to try to go to these things. They only serve to give you paint some naive picture that you're special/important when you're not. At all. The sooner you learn this; the easier it'll be to handle these problems and not fall for these gimmicks you call "help". I urge you to argue otherwise.
 
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