ABSTRACT
Recognizing that many medical students experience burnout, depression, and fatigue at some point during their medical training, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) and Department of Social Work piloted a program to assess and address medical student wellness. The outcome is our Wellness Advisory Program, created in 2017, in which all students are assigned a Wellness Advisor, a social worker available across all four years of medical school to offer ongoing support, wellness reflection, and resource building. Due to the success of the program, meeting with the social worker/wellness advisor has become an integrated part of the medical students’ requirements and is meeting a unique need to normalize self-care and wellness in medical training.
