This document discusses the importance of stress management training for medical students. It describes a 2-week course called "The Inevitable Stress" that teaches stress management through simulation exercises. The course focuses on developing emotional intelligence, awareness of one's stress responses, and practical skills to handle stress. Student feedback praised the highly relevant content, opportunity to strengthen skills, and safe learning environment. The document argues that stress management training should be a mandatory and ongoing part of the medical school curriculum to create doctors who can handle stress and work better, improving patient care.

1. where do we come from and where
can we go - if we FEEL like?
Mantas Okas, MD PhD, Consultant in Emergency Medicine
Clinical knowledge and training centre, Rapid Response Unit, Ambulance
in Stockholm (AISAB/Capio)
Karolinska Institutet
STRESS

2. STRESS?

3. Response to a stressor

4. Part of the task in our everyday job

5. Hard // Soft?
Technical // Non-technical?
Essential?

8. Med students? Physicians in training?

12. The Inevitable Stress:
person-centred learning
of stress management
through simulation
for medical students

13. Mats Ericsson Mini Ruiz Walter Ossika

14. Stress management –
a key competence
Theory and practice
3 hp

15. 2wks
8-12 pax
ca 10 personell
Theory and awareness
Individual sims
Group sims

20. Psychological safety

22. "Incredibly relevant content. Very educational. Plenty of time to
practice and strengthen practical skills. One has had the
opportunity to develop such important competencies to handle
the stress that we ALL will encounter in our future jobs as doctors.
Additionally, very kind, good, and competent teachers. Coffee
break(ed. FIKA) every day! ;) Fun course!! Lovely group.
I hold the summer vacation sacred, but would actually have gladly
replaced 2 weeks of vacation with 2 weeks of extended course. It's
probably the first and last time that feeling will arise during the
years at KI! If you choose this course, you will LOVE it and be so
satisfied with your choice!!!"

23. “That we had the opportunity to challenge and
push ourselves in an environment that was also
safe. That during the course, we had the
opportunity to get to know ourselves and our
own stress reactions better."

24. “Incredibly important information and practice. It
should be a mandatory course, as it provides
doctors who feel better and work better -
ultimately, it also becomes important for patients
and society. The team that conducted the course
did an incredible job and were very engaged.
Keep it up!"

25. Emotional inteligence // Emotional competence //Emotional
awareness

26. Self
Team
Boss
Organisation
Society

27. Educational goal in the uni curriculum for all
undergraduate medical students
Teaching activity at least x2 /curriculum
At least one elective

32. Thank you!