"The Gift of Time": Mental Health in Medical Training

This episode contains content related to mental health and depression.National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 800-273-82551 in 4 medical students around the world reports depressive symptoms or depression at some point during medical school. Despite high rates of mental illness amongst medical trainees, students face barriers to care including stigma and lack of access. In her piece “The Gift of Time,” Dr. Priya Roy, an internal medicine resident at the University of Wisconsin, shares her experience seeking mental healthcare in medical school after the death of a loved one. Dr. Roy discusses how her frustrations navigating her school’s mental health services evolved into BereaveMed, a website she co-founded and created to help other medical trainees find resources to deal with grief and loss. You can find the piece Dr. Roy reads in this episode on her website, www.bereavemed.com.