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3rd Year Student Jasmine

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3rd Year Medical Student Jasmine

Provide support for your peer, Jasmine, who is experiencing stresses related to medical school.

Scenario Goal:

 This scenario will help prepare you to provide support for a medical student peer experiencing stress related to medical school.

Scenario Objectives:

After completing this scenario, medical students will be able to:

  1. Engage supportively with a medical student peer experiencing distress related to school, role modeling use of healthy coping skills.
  2. Assess the impact of a stress related to medical school on a peer, including use of unhealthy vs. healthy coping.
  3. Provide interventions and resources to help mitigate a medical student peer’s distress and build resilience.
Meet Jasmine

Funding: Initial development of this activity was supported by funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (Grant #1 R43 AA026474-01).

Educational Objectives:

After completing this activity, the learner will understand how medical students can provide peer support to other medical students experiencing distress related to medical training. The skills participants will be able to use in peer support include:

  • Connect with a peer in distress to initiate a discussion of their situation.
  • Clarify your role in providing peer support.
  • Elicit your peer’s story using open-ended questions and listen using active and reflective listening skills.
  • Find out how your peer’s concerns have impacted them.
  • Model healthy coping skills and provide support for your peer’s avoiding unhealthy coping and using healthy coping
  • Provide interventions, advice based on your experience, and resources to help mitigate your peer’s distress.
  • Recognize when to recommend that your peer get additional help.
  • Provide follow-up and determine if you will provide ongoing support.

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Clinical Tools, Inc. requires everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest to the provider, which are defined as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months that create a conflict of interest. Any conflicts of interest are resolved prior to the delivery of the educational activity to the learner. CTI does not permit individuals with financial conflicts of interest to participate in any stage of activity development.

T Bradley Tanner, MD (President, Clinical Tools, Inc.)
Disclosure: Has disclosed no relevant financial relationships. Dr. Tanner is the owner of Clinical Tools.

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T. Bradley Tanner, MD is president of Clinical Tools and responsible for the vision of the company. He has received funding via grants and contracts from NIDA, NIAAA, NIMH, NCI, AHRQ, CDC, the Dept of Defense, and NASA to develop medical and health education projects. Dr. Tanner served as principal investigator on 2 NIDA grants to develop the DATA-2000 qualifying buprenorphine training program and clinical practice tools on BupPractice.com. He also has a strong background in technology and oversees the development and delivery of all Clinical Tools websites. Dr. Tanner is also a board-certified psychiatrist with experience in inpatient, outpatient, and emergency health settings. He currently treats patients and educates medical students and residents via his role as a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Karen Rossie, DDS, PhD (Research Scientist, Clinical Tools, Inc. )
Disclosure: Has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

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Karen Rossie, DDS, PhD, directs projects at Clinical Tools. She majored in biology at Cleveland State University and studied dentistry at Case Western Reserve University followed by completing a Masters in pathology at Ohio State University, and later, a PhD in Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She taught and practiced oral pathology and oral medicine for 15 years at the Ohio State University and the University of Pittsburgh, doing research in autoimmune disease, viral effects in bone marrow transplantation, oral cancer, salivary gland disease, candidiasis, and diabetes. She has used this diverse background to lead or contribute to CTI projects related to tobacco cessation, opioid abuse treatment, anxiety, dementia care, alcohol use disorder, screening and brief interventions for substance abuse, obesity, and pain and addiction.

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