摘要
Medical school is a stressful time for physicians in training and correlates with an increase in rates of burnout.In addition to typical stressors,millennial students in particular may face additional challenges as studies suggest they tend to learn differently than their older counterparts.Teaching medical students’techniques to address burnout,and developing curriculum that addresses social media in medicine,may help students build skills to mitigate burnout during their future careers.Medical educators at the Stritch School of Medicine created a narrative medicine elective for students in their clinical years with this philosophy in mind.Evaluation of the curriculum from pre-and post-elective surveys showed that the elective was effective in addressing symptoms of burnout,specifically emotional exhaustion and depersonalization,and improved student comfort with social media as a medical professional.
