Claire Mimnagh

Research Assistant

Project looking at mindfulness meditation, burnout and wellbeing with preclinical medical students.

Consultation Skills Tutor/OSCE Examiner (Year 1 and 2) 

Consultation Skills Administrator

Provide support in two key areas:

1. The communication and consultation skills teaching component of the program across all 5 years
2. The coordination and induction of Direct Entry students who join the Manchester medical programme each year 

Sarah Shepherd - Principal Investigator

MSc Psychology

Mindfulness with preclinical medical students

The inability to cope with the enormous stress of medical education may result in personal and professional consequences. Research conducted with undergraduate medical students at St Andrews and Manchester suggested that one in four were categorised as ‘burned-out.’ In 2013/14, 7% of Manchester Medical School students met with Student Welfare and Professionalism in order to interrupt their degree. Resilience and positive mental well-being are key to student retention and degree attainment. This project seeks to assess whether mindfulness meditation, is effective at increasing well-being and resilience and reducing burnout levels in early stage undergraduate medical students.

Duration of the project

6 months - 2015

Funding Body

Centre for Higher Education Research, Innovation and Learning (CHERIL)