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Provide peer support to colleagues experiencing stress in med school or at work.

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