PEACE of mind: Guidelines for enhancing psychological support for medical students

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The prevalence of mental illness among medical students is high and this continues to be the case in spite of interventions and of providing students with access to mental health services. In this article we present the basic literature on the issue and the reasons why mental illness still prevails among medical students, and we propose the PEACE model for approaching the issue at multiple and interconnected levels, providing examples of relevant actions.