As you are well aware, medical students are at terrible risk for loneliness, depression and suicide. A 2016 meta-analysis in JAMA estimated the prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms among medical students at 27.2% and the prevalence of suicidal ideation […]
The CDC released a sobering report about suicide in the US. A lot of people are dying by suicide – 45,000 just in the year 2016. Suicide rates have gone up since 1999 in in virtually every state by as […]
We were surprised to discover that there was no Facebook group just for parents of medical students. After all, parents of medical students could also benefit from being able to talk with one another, exchange ideas and stories, struggles and […]
Academic Pediatrics just published an article I wrote together with Dr. Horace DeLisser, Associate Dean for Professionalism and Humanism at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In the paper, we present a set of best practices […]
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What a nice holiday gift – our ASCD Express article, “A Relational Bank Account That Pays Dividends“, was selected to be featured in the ASCD “Best of 2016“. We are honored to be featured in this prestigious list, and thank […]
“I have had the privilege of knowing and working with Dr. Eran Magen for the last several years. As high stakes accountability and testing remain the focus of current educational ideology in public education, it is important that we not […]