Impact of a Mental Health Support Program on of Medical Residents' Stigmatization Towards People With Lived Experience

"The Adult Mental Health Practice Support Program (PSP) was designed in 2009 by the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) to address needs expressed by the province's family physicians to improve patient care in British Colombia. Its content and delivery model has been designed using evidence-based key ingredients and implication factors understood to be important for effective stigma reduction. These include the following:~* the use of contact-based education,~* skills-building to increase confidence and provide another management option with or without drugs particularly if access to mental health support services is difficult or absent~* tools - using the principles of cognitive behavioural theory~The training will be delivered virtually over a total of 4 sessions two weeks apart, covering an 8-week period. A two hour virtually delivered booster session will be provided to students approximately one year after the delivery of the initial training."