STAT September 25, 2023
Medical students experience significant mental distress, including high rates of anxiety, alcohol use, depression and suicidal ideation, and it’s only gotten worse since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The data also show that medical students don’t always get care for these conditions when they need it.
And as we found during a recent research study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, the reasons for this are not just stigma and fear of professional repercussions. With our colleagues, we found that insurance plans offered by U.S. medical schools have high out-of-network annual deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums as well as significant cost sharing, which might dissuade students from accessing mental health care when they need it.
To arrive at this conclusion, we...
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