Department of Medicine
Division of Preventive & Behavioral Medicine
Clinical Services
The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society
The Center administers and promotes the clinical, educational, research, and outreach/networking work of the Stress Reduction Clinic and its staff.
The Stress Reduction Clinic
Outpatient Program
The Stress Reduction Clinic offers the 11-session Stress Reduction and Relaxation Program (SR&RP). The SR&RP is an outpatient behavioral medicine clinic in the form of a course taken as a complement to regular medical treatment. The course offers intensive training in mindfulness meditation and yoga designed to promote a calm, fluid awareness and to improve an individual's capacity to cope in healthy ways with stress, chronic pain, illness, and pressures of daily living.
Anyone with a chronic or acute medical condition under the care of a physician may apply for participation in the program. Common reasons for referral include high blood pressure, headaches, irritable bowel syndrome, obesity, ulcers, sleep disturbance, muscle spasms, anxiety, cancer, chronic pain conditions, and heart disease.
Medical Student Stress Reduction
The Medical Student Stress Reduction Program
This program is open to all first and second year medical students and provides:
- a forum for learning effective, meditation-based, stress reduction skills;
- a supportive and safe environment where students have an opportunity to discuss their experiences and feelings about medical education;
- an orientation to stress, coping, and life changes to assist students in maintaining a stable yet flexible sense of self during medical school; and a first-hand experience of mind/body skills as a foundation for the development of a behavioral and preventive perspective useful in medical practice.