knowledge -WSS

knowledge

author：fashion 2025-09-28 21:05:41 - browse：665

For the many high-achieving perfectionists who enter medical school each year, the stakes of their success have never been higher. Becoming a doctor means lives will be in their hands — and failing to make it through med school means they’ll be stuck with an unthinkable amount of debt without a viable way to pay for it. It’s no wonder that medical students suffer greatly from burnout and mental health struggles. But despite an increased awareness of mental health on campuses across the country, there are still barriers keeping many students from accessing the care that they need.

This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” medical student Amelia Mercado and her professor J. Wesley Boyd talk about the stressors of medical training, privacy concerns within academic institutions, and how high insurance costs affect access to mental health care.

“The way that you get into medical school, you thrive on being able to push through things,” Mercado said. “After you ask yourself all these questions and [consider] all these opportunities that involve cost, mental and medical care can often fall at the bottom of the priority list.”

The conversation is based on their co-authored First Opinion, “How medical schools are failing students who need mental health care.”

Be sure to sign up for the weekly “First Opinion Podcast” on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, or wherever you get your podcasts.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Have an opinion on this essay? Submit a letter to the editor here.

Previous article： Food as medicine: CMS rules hamper 'prescribing' of fruits, veggies
Next article： The system is set up to fail children with medical complexity

focus

WSS

Ask STAT: What do you want to know about ChatGPT in medicine?

Gene therapy has helped boys walk. Can scientists keep it that way?

How faith leaders like me can help address America's obesity epidemic

Moderna says combo Covid

What would happen to your eyes if you looked at the solar eclipse?

How faith leaders like me can help address America's obesity epidemic

entertainment

knowledge

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Have an opinion on this essay? Submit a letter to the editor here.

Wikipedia

Guidelines to prevent youth baseball injuries need more muscle

FDA grants conditional OK to Sarepta’s gene therapy for Duchenne

United colonoscopy coverage change 'may cost lives,' doctors say

NIH tests clinical research in primary care with $30 million program

Psychedelics group wrestles with new pharma identity

STAT Virtual Event: ASCO Recap, Live!

Dobbs anniversary: the lost opportunity of abortion as health care

Paxlovid study fails to answer questions over benefit for broader groups

DIEP, the 'gold standard' of breast reconstruction, is under threat

Cloning humans is technically possible. It's curious no one has tried

entertainment

STAT's guide to the next generation of CAR

STAT Virtual Event: ASCO Recap, Live!

The system is set up to fail children with medical complexity

WATCH: Why do fingernails fall off when they're damaged?

New guidelines on severe brain injury complicate already difficult decisions

Why drug prescriptions should include diagnoses

focus

leisure time

leisure time

leisure time