UNSOM Students: Student Life: Student Health & Wellness: Wellness Program

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The School of Medicine Wellness Program for medical students is designed to help medical students:

• balance the academic, financial, psychological, physical, spiritual, and social aspects of their lives.
• encourage students' awareness, appreciation and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle.
• provide the skills for students to teach the values of wellness to patients throughout their careers.

A list of counseling providers is available here.

Events include:

Calendar of Events

August

• New Student Orientation
• Family Day and White Coat Ceremony
• Student Health Meeting - Mandatory MS1

September

• Wellness Committee Meeting
• Self-Hypnosis Workshop
• Your Money and Your Life: Financial Strategies That Work
• Ethnic Potluck

October

• Effective Study Habits and Test Taking Strategies
• Staying Healthy in the Clinical Environment OSHA (Mandatory for MSI and MSII)
• Avoiding Burnout, Dealing with Depression
• Wellness Committee Meeting
• Maintaining Relationships
• Scrubs Dessert Potluck, Student Lounge 6-8pm

November

• Relaxation Techniques
• "If I Knew Then...": Tips for the Third Year and Beyond From Fourth Year Med Students
• Expert Advice from Clinicians and Basic Science Faculty on Superior Test Performance
• Food for the Soul Potluck
• Wellness Committee Meeting

December

• Achieving Peak Performance with Effective Self Regulation Skills
• Ice Cream Stress Buster
• Finals Survival Kits

January

• UNSOM Evening of the Arts Talent Show
• Panel of Counselors and Psychologists
• Critical Analysis and Higher Order Thinking

February

• Celebrating Diversity in Medicine Month
• Food for the Soul Potluck
• UNSOM Art Festival, Savitt Medical Library

March

• Experiential Practice with Standardized patients II
• Preparing for Step 1 Panel
• Maintaining Relationships
• Living Within Your Means: Budgeting Strategies That Work

April

• Relaxation Techniques
• Clinical Orientation & Ceremony, Class '07
• Panel of Successful Student, Graduate and Resident Test Takers
• Ice Cream Social and Movie Night

May

• Current Policies and Practices of the USMLE
• Testing Service and Mock Board Examinations

Exact Dates, Times and Places to be Announced.