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Vital Coach: A Study of Resiliency in Medical Students

NCT07342673 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 49

Last updated 2026-03-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Medical students often begin training with psychological and physiological health metrics superior to their age-matched peers. By graduation, however, rates of depression, anxiety, and physiologic dysregulation are markedly higher, reflecting the cumulative strain of long study hours, high-stakes examinations, and the emotional burden of early patient care. Despite this, few medical schools provide structured, evidence-based tools for students to develop resiliency and recovery skills before clinical rotations begin.

Conditions

  • Burnout

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Arena Strive

integrates asynchronous coaching, two virtual coaching sessions with a high-performance medicine coach, physiological data from wearable sensors, and a focused curriculum of performance tools tailored to frontline healthcare workers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wake Forest University Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dermot Phelan, MD, PhD · Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-01-16
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2026-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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