2024-02-12 10:01:59
Academic difficulties, exam anxiety, demotivation, stress, high demands or problems in the personal and family sphere are the main reasons why students have resorted to the Telematic Service for Psychological Support for Medical Students (SAPEM).
Students of the Faculty of Medicine of Oviedo. EFE/José Luis Cereijido
This service was launched in October 2022 and since then has served more than 280 medical students, 86% of them are women.
The SAPEM provides psycho-emotional care to medical students in Spain, who voluntarily request professional help, through a telematic platform, by videoconference or by telephone with mental health professionals and in a completely confidential manner.
The promoters of this service are the Foundation for the Social Protection of the Collegiate Medical Organization (FPSOMC)he State Council of Medical Students (CEEM) and the Medical Mutual Foundation (FMM).
The SAPEM was created precisely to address and respond to a specific problem for students of the Medicine degree: mental disorders and emotional discomfort related to the activities of the training period.
The mental health of medical students
According to the balance obtained since the beginning of this benefit:
- 48% of the students served are between 21 and 23 years old.
- The sixth year of the degree is the course with the highest incidence of students attended, with 39% of students, followed by the fifth and third years with 30% and 29%, respectively.
- This means that 70% of the students served are in the final years of their degree.
- Of the medical students attended to by the service’s Reception Unit, 177 students who presented academic difficulties such as lack of motivation regarding their career, adaptive disorders, high demands, anxiety before exams and fear of the personal reaction to a seriously ill patient stand out. before their families.
- 52% have difficulties related to the personal/family sphere or relational conflicts with their partner, family or friends.
- Madrid with 21% of those treated, followed by Galicia (14%), Andalusia (12%) and Catalonia (10%) are the autonomous communities with the highest incidence.
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How to ask for help?
Medical students who need it can write to the WhatsApp number 669 438 903, enabled by the Foundation for the Social Protection of the Collegiate Medical Organization (FPSOMC) and, following filling out an online form, in a completely confidential manner, you will be contacted by mental health professionals from the Galatea Foundation quickly and briefly at the telephone number provided by the student.
On the FPSOMC website, a specific space has been enabled with information on the SAPEM and with informative material. Furthermore, through videos and creatives for social networks, the entities promote the dissemination of this service.
“Self-care, the pending subject of your training. #EmpiezaPorTi” is the motto of the Telematic Service for Psychological Support for Medical Students (SAPEM) to reach more medical students and create the necessary awareness of self-care from the first academic contacts with this science.
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