Get Your Mind Right
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What’s on your mind?
THINKING LIKE A MEDICAL STUDENT
As a medical student, I know a few things about coping with times
of high stress and anxiety. During
COVID-19, this type of thinking is really (really) useful.
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t’s beyond clear to all of us that when we ended 2019 and rang in 2020, not of us could have imagined how much our lives would change. Even after months after the COVID-19 crisis rocked all of our worlds, we still have not clue about how much longer this pandemic will lasts, or how or lives will be altered moving forward.
To be honest, we really just have to come to grips that it is still very unclear what the impact of this pandemic will be long term, and millions of students do not know when, or if they will return to campus. This is a lot. I, for sure, will not dare to form an idea of how I think this will all unfold in the end, but I do, however, know a thing or two about how to successfully move through
tough times and bouts of uncertainty. As a medical student, I’m presented with the ups and downs of the medical school journey on a daily basis. I wake up each day knowing that things will get harder before they get easier. While the current pandemic has certainly brought a whole new element into the mix, my anxiety about keeping it together as a medical
