Mindfulness training in medical education as a means to improve resilience, empathy, and mental health in the medical profession.

Autor:	Vidal EIO; Internal Medicine Department, Botucatu Medical School, Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-687, SP, Brazil.; Wenckebach Institute for Education and Training, LEARN - Lifelong Learning, Education and Assessment Research Network, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713AV, Groningen, Netherlands. edison.vidal@unesp.br., Ribeiro LFA; Assertiva Mindfulness, Botucatu 18603-970, SP, Brazil., de Carvalho-Filho MA; Wenckebach Institute for Education and Training, LEARN - Lifelong Learning, Education and Assessment Research Network, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713AV, Groningen, Netherlands., Fukushima FB; Wenckebach Institute for Education and Training, LEARN - Lifelong Learning, Education and Assessment Research Network, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9713AV, Groningen, Netherlands.; Surgical Specialties and Anesthesiology Department, Botucatu Medical School, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Botucatu 18618-687, SP, Brazil.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	World journal of psychiatry [World J Psychiatry] 2024 Apr 19; Vol. 14 (4), pp. 489-493. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Apr 19 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.5498/wjp.v14.i4.489
Abstrakt:	The high rates of depression, burnout, and increased risk of suicide among medical students, residents, and physicians in comparison with other careers signal a mental health crisis within our profession. We contend that this crisis coupled with the inadequate acquisition of interpersonal skills during medical education results from the interaction between a challenging environment and the mental capital of individuals. Additionally, we posit that mindfulness-based practices are instrumental for the development of major components of mental capital, such as resilience, flexibility of mind, and learning skills, while also serving as a pathway to enhance empathy, compassion, self-awareness, conflict resolution, and relational abilities. Importantly, the evidence base supporting the effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions has been increasing over the years, and a growing number of medical schools have already integrated mindfulness into their curricula. While we acknowledge that mindfulness is not a panacea for all educational and mental health problems in this field, we argue that there is currently an unprecedented opportunity to gather momentum, spread and study mindfulness-based programs in medical schools around the world as a way to address some longstanding shortcomings of the medical profession and the health and educational systems upon which it is rooted. Competing Interests: Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report having no relevant conflicts of interest for this article. (©The Author(s) 2024. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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