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My First Therapy Session
Academic Medicine Podcast
English - March 01, 2021 12:00 - 3 minutes - 9.43 MB - ★★★★ - 43 ratingsEducation Health & Fitness Medicine learners education faculty medicine physicians policy storytelling trainees Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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"As future medical professionals, we are taught about the importance of mental health. Many of us will talk to our patients about their struggles, yet we cannot talk to each other about our own."
Heather Stewart, fourth-year medical student at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, recounts her first therapy session and questions why the stigma around asking for help still exists.
This essay was published in the Teaching and Learning Moments column in the February 2021 issue of Academic Medicine. Read the essay at academicmedicine.org.