Learn how to offer peer support to physicians or medical students experiencing stress on the job or in medical school:
- Connect with a peer in distress and engage them in discussing their situation
- Clarify that your role is to provide social and emotional support
- Elicit your peer's story, and use listening skills
- Ask about the impact of their concern on their life
- Recognize a mental health evaluation or further support is indicated
- Provide interventions and resources to help mitigate a peer's distress
- Provide follow-up