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uncomfortable situations " in a healthy way.
Many podiatric students allow their various obligations to
sway them from day to day. Students tend to neglect taking
time to pause and reflect as assignment deadlines, board
examinations, and future planning tug at their scrubs,
pulling them to the next obligatory step to success. In what
seems like minutes, semesters pass, and students are left
with little save exhaustion and bewilderment that is only
slightly eased with the reward of graduation. Trevell found
that he could modify his research project to fit the varying
needs and time constraints of different age groups, which
shows how malleable the practice of mindfulness can be for
any student or physician.
NYCPM student Trevell Moxey discussing the
importance of APMSA.
lives and a better society. Their mission is to improve
lives by empowering students with the essential skills and
dispositions to make better decisions. Instead of hoping
that students make good decisions, the organization wants
to teach them how. The organization believes that the
decisions we make shape our lives and outcomes, as well as
the people and organizations around us.
Trevell echoes their mission, " There isn't a more important
set of skills that we can teach today's youth other than how
to approach decision-making, including clarifying their
values and goals, thinking probabilistically, recognizing
and resisting cognitive biases, and taking actions that are
consistent with their desired outcomes. " Based on the
research findings, Trevell finds that practicing mindfulness
is the best approach to deal with " intense, stressful, or
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Practicing mindfulness
every day can train students
and podiatrists to adapt
to the constant high stress
environments that come with
the profession.
Practicing mindfulness every day can train students and
podiatrists to adapt to the constant high stress environments
that come with the profession. It allows the individual to
pause and reflect on their present moment before returning
to the stressor with a healthy, new lens. A similar method
that many teachers encourage their students to implement
is incubation: the practice of focusing on a problem for a
set period of time, switching to a new topic for a while, and
then returning to the previous problem. Trevell provides
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