Medical schools' responsibilities in improving students' mental health

I thank Abraham et al. (1) for their insightful work regarding admissions committee members’ biases toward mental health conditions. Mental health problems are a rising and rampant concern in the medical workforce, with medical students experiencing significantly higher rates of anxiety, depression, and burnout than their nonmedical peers (2). It was a relief to see that reporting mental health conditions on medical school applications was not stigmatized by committee members in this study and that demonstrating proactive steps toward recovery from mental illness was sometimes viewed positively. Erasing the stigma associated withmental health is a building block in encouraging better access to treatment and in humanizing doctors by recognizing that the subject of their expertise does not make them immune from health concerns. © 2023 the American Physiological Society