This is the third and final post of a special three-part OMSA wellness series from the OMSA Wellness Committee 2014-2015. Want to join our amazing team? Look out for applications for the OMSA Wellness Committee and OMSA Wellness Liaison in September! Feel free to email us at services@omsa.ca for more information on the roles.
This is the second post of a special three-part OMSA wellness series, featuring guest writer Dr. Sarah Luckett Gatopoulos, a PGY1 in Emergency Medicine at McMaster University. At the third annual OMSA Wellness Retreat this past March, she facilitated a fantastic workshop entitled ‘The Portable Workout’.
This is the first post of a special three-part OMSA wellness series. Medical school definitely has its highs and lows... but your peers & colleagues have your back! In this blog post, we highlight the multitude of medical student-driven wellness initiatives across Ontario. The following initiatives were also previously presented during the Student Initiatives Panel during the OMSA Wellness Retreat on Mar 29, 2015.
Spring is coming soon and we have some good news for you: the OMSA Wellness Retreat is less than a month away! This is a unique opportunity to relax, meet your peers from other Ontario medical schools and learn valuable tips and strategies for self-care as a future physician.
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The Vitals team conveys their thanks and appreciation to ALL of the medical students who supported them in the first year of their initiative. For more about their project, visit their site.
Relaxing is a foreign word to us as medical students, we are always on the go with our never ending 'to-do' lists, traveling for electives, traveling for conferences, increasingly more and more paperwork and always trying to do our best.
Waitlists seem to be the story of my life. Waitlisted for an earlier appointment, waitlisted to get into medical school, and of course, waitlisted for the Wellness retreat. But, when I finally received the offer via email the week of the retreat I didn't know what to make of it...
Considering that I don't respond very well to change and last minute plans, I was both excited and stressed.
In medical school it is easy to get caught up in the learning and
involvement, not taking time to care for yourself. The culture is
also one of toughness, so there is apprehension in asking for
help or using the resources available. When you do look for
resources, it can be difficult to find them, clicking through the
many layers of university websites or sifting through all the
community resources.
With the help of an Innovator Grant from the OMSA the Vitals
Student Wellness Project was created at Western University. This
Older physicians humor us with war stories of the infamous 48-hour call shifts, burnout as a casual by-product of being a physician, and the unbridled sentiment that our generation values lifestyle above all. In the last decade, there has been a cultural shift promoting the ideology of physician, heal thyself. But where do we as medical students fit into this paradigm?