Just for Medical Students

Build on your skills to help lead the future of medicine. 

Early Career Development

•  Creating and Maintaining Student Life Balance 
  
•  Challenges of Professional Boundaries 
  
•  Social Media: Ethical Dilemmas and Boundaries 
  
•  Challenging Patient Encounters 
  
•  Medical Student Stress and Burnout 
  
•  Preventing Medical Student Suicide 
  
•  Finding a Residency

Wellness & Stress Management
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• Overcoming Distress in Medicine (CME)
• Balance for Life (CME)
• How to Stay Calm When You Know You'll Be Stressed with Daniel Levitin (TED Talk)
   

Recommended Reading

• Systole and Diastole, Strength and Openness
  By Colleen M. Farrell, MD (JAMA. 2019;321(19):1871-1872.)
  
• On Doctoring: Stories, Poems, Essays 
  Edited by Richard Reynolds, MD & John Stone, MD
  
• Practicing Medicine in the 21st Century 
  Edited by David B. Nash, MD, MBA, Alexandria Skoufalos, EdD, Megan Hartman, MS, & Howard Horwitz, MPH
  
• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
  By Atul Gawande
  
• TED Talk: Doctors Make Mistakes. Can We Talk About That?
  Brian Goldman, MD at TEDxToronto 2010

TMA Resources

• TMA Medical Student Section (MSS) 
• Free Health and Wellness Education for Medical Students
  

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