Events & Activities

Events

Offering student led yoga 3 days a week.
Providing pre-exam breakfast snacks and coffee one business day before an exam.
Incorporating wellness into Structure and Development.
Highlighting wellness topics in the Stress Less and Decompress section of the White Coat.
Offering a wellness tracking and point system
Wellness incentives - individual prizes and points for House

The 2017-2018 Academic Year was an exciting year with the launch of our Stress Less and Decompress wellness programming.

Hosted two breakfasts for Year 1 & Year 2 (Rejuvenation Breakfast Video)
Offered two Meditation Classes
Pre-exam food and coffee: Provided breakfast snacks and coffee one business day before an exam.
ICM 3 days: Made these days shorter and incorporated some wellness programming
Added wellness talks in Psych and IM Clerkships
House spaces for students opened in January of 2018 in HSF-I (Lois Young-Thomas House, Julius Friedenwald House, Eva Dodge House, and Mario Garcia-Palmieri House) where students can have social events, meetings, or space for some downtime. Click to read more about our House Advisory System.
Incorporated wellness topics into the bi-monthly White Coat newsletter in September of 2017, as well as included campus resources such as UMB's Wellness Hub, Student Counseling Center, and Student Health.
The Complementary and Integrative Medicine Interest Group (CIMIG) created and distributed a wellness survey.