Prioritizing physician mental health enhances patient care and helps you balance work and personal interests, enabling long-term career success. Challenges to mental health in medical schoolLet’s face it, med school is tough. “Mental health is ‘brain health’,” Dr. Rougier says. Mental health support services available in med schoolMed students should actively seek out the university support services available to help them throughout school. In addition, PSC hosts meaningful activities on campus to highlight University Mental Health Day in March and World Mental Health Day on October 10.