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Learn how to offer peer support to physicians or medical students experiencing stress on the job or in medical school: - Connect with a peer in distress and engage them in discussing their situation - Clarify that your role is to provide social and emotional support - Elicit your peer's story, and use listening skills - Ask about the impact of their concern on their life - Recognize a mental health evaluation or further support is indicated - Provide interventions and resources to help mitigate a peer's distress - Provide follow-up