The Mental Health of Medical Students

Andrew Molodynski, Consultant Psychiatrist, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, and Secretary General, World Association of Social Psychiatry, UK, Sarah Marie Farrell, Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK, Dinesh Bhugra, Professor Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, Kings College London, London, UK Andrew Molodynski is a Consultant Psychiatrist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at Oxford University, UK. He has worked in community psychiatry for 20 years and been actively involved in research in the field for 15. He is the mental health lead for the British Medical Association Consultants Committee and Secretary General of the World Association of Social Psychiatry. Sarah Marie Farrell is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurosurgery working at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, UK. She holds a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Oxford. She has published work in the realms of medical student wellbeing, dopamine and the prefrontal cortex, and pain and the autonomic nervous system. Dinesh Bhugra is Professor Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, at Kings College London, UK. He has (co)edited and (co)authored over 40 books, including the Oxford Textbook of Public Mental Health (OUP) which won the British Medical Award (BMA) Book of the Year in Psychiatry in 2019, and Practical Cultural Psychiatry (OUP) which was highly commended in the same year. He was President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2008-2011, the World Psychiatric Association from 2014-2017, and the British Medical Association from 2018-2019.