Student wellbeing supports in Australian and New Zealand medical schools: A post-guidance snapshot from a 14-institution survey
Andri Burger, Chanaka Wijeratne, Minh Thu Nguyen, Megan Kalucy, Kimberlie Dean · 2026
Read Student wellbeing supports in Australian and New Zealand medical schools: A post-guidance snapshot from a 14-institution survey by Andri Burger, Chanaka Wijeratne, Minh Thu Nguyen, Megan Kalucy, Kimberlie Dean (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13525176.txt.
Description
Andri Burger and colleagues survey, in a 2026 snapshot study, student wellbeing supports in medical schools across Australia and New Zealand after new guidance appeared. Medical students report more psychological distress than peers, with effects on learning and patient safety. National documents now urge safe learning environments and wellbeing-oriented curricula, and accreditation standards were revised.
All 24 accredited schools were invited to an online survey between February and May 2024, distributed through dean and wellbeing networks. Sixteen responses came from fourteen schools, representing 58 percent of the sector, after duplicate entries were merged. Respondents were educators and administrators working in student wellbeing or medical education. Their answers reflect personal institutional views, not formally endorsed positions, a caveat the authors state plainly while assessing alignment with the guidance.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Andri Burger, Chanaka Wijeratne, Minh Thu Nguyen, Megan Kalucy, Kimberlie Dean |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12786 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |