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A short mindfulness for medical students Amy Spatz

A short mindfulness for medical students · 2 3-week Mindfulness course based on shared experience, discussions and daily practise Reflect each day on: Thoughts, feelings and emotions

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Page 1: A short mindfulness for medical students · 2 3-week Mindfulness course based on shared experience, discussions and daily practise Reflect each day on: Thoughts, feelings and emotions

A short mindfulness for medical students

Amy Spatz

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MEDICAL STUDENTS

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SOCRATES

‘The unexamined life isn’t worth living’

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FACTORS AFFECTING ELITE ATHLETES

• High internal and external expectations

• ‘Win at all costs’ attitudes

• Parental pressures

• Inconsistent coaching

• Long practices

• Excessive time demands

• Perfectionism Adapted from Weinberg RS, Gould D (date??)

VISCOUS CYCLE leading to STRESS

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Mindfulness is:

‘paying attention in a particular way:

on purpose, in the present moment,

and non-judgmentally’.

Kabbat-Zinn, 1994

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Why Mindfulness?

• Growing trend for provision of stress reduction / wellbeing support for medical students

• 8 week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme is proven to be successful

• Reports of increased empathy and concentration.

• fMRI – direct change to areas of brain linked to cognition.

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Some Questions:

• What do students experience as part of an adapted 3 week mindfulness course?

• How feasible and useful is it?

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The method Stage Description

1 Before starting course perform a personal ‘challenge’

• Record relevant numerical data

• Reflect on the experience

• Journal

2 3-week Mindfulness course based on shared

experience, discussions and daily practise

Reflect each day on:

Thoughts, feelings and emotions with regards to the

daily practise and group meetings

Any noticeable differences in day-to-day life

3 After the course has been completed repeat the

‘challenge’

Record numerical data

Reflect on the experience

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The course

Week 1: Check in. Introduce, practise and discuss a ‘body scan’ form of mindfulness meditation

Week 2: Check in. Introduce, practise and discuss ‘breath awareness’

Week 3: Check in. Introduce, practise and discuss ‘mindful movement’

Homework – daily practise & Journaling

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Analysis

Each student:

• Thematically analysed reflective data

• Considered this in the context of additional data gathered around the ‘challenge’.

Organisers:

• Conducted a short focus group and videoed some responses

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The “Experience”

Let the Students tell us

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What next?

Develop a practice that is practical

• Run the course again?

• Adapt it further?

We could use more evidence