Uncovering heterogeneity in mental health changes among first-year medical students.

Introduction: The initial year of medical school is linked to a decline in mental health. To assess mental health comprehensively, the dual-factor model posits the consideration of both psychopathology (e.g.

First-year Medical Students' Varying Vulnerability to Developing Depressive Symptoms and Its Predictors: a Latent Profile Analysis.

Objective: Previous meta-analytic data have demonstrated the propensity for mental morbidity among medical students (Rotenstein et al. JAMA. 2016;316(21):2214-36).

Online programs to strengthen the mental health of medical students: A systematic review of the literature.

Medical students have been shown to be vulnerable to mental stress. Strengthening individual protective characteristics can be one cornerstone for promoting medical students' mental health and thereby preventing mental disorders. Online programs are an opportunity to provide appropriate options that have the advantage of being accessible from anywhere, at any time, and with a low entry threshold.

A longitudinal investigation of mental health, perceived learning environment and burdens in a cohort of first-year German medical students' before and during the COVID-19 'new normal'.

Background: Medical students' propensity to develop mental morbidity has been described for decades but remains unresolved. To assess student mental health person-centred and longitudinally, we have been investigating a cohort of German students since October 2019. After their first semester under 'normal' conditions, rapid changes became necessary due to the COVID-19 situation.

Academic-associated emotions before and during the COVID-19-related online semester - a longitudinal investigation of first-year medical students.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students have been confronted with an online semester. Because of the special requirements, online teaching can trigger negative emotions, which can have an unfavourable impact on the learning process and which therefore need to be regulated. This study investigates academic-associated emotions and the regulation of those emotions both before (December 2019) and during (June 2020) the online semester for first-year medical students.