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Even the best medical educational curriculum plans are challenging for students who have noncognitive stressors impacting their academic performance. Many personal life events affect medical student success including mental and physical health disabilities, economic crises, family problems, and substance abuse. Coping strategies, motivational forces, professional behavior, and personal habits further modify stressful situations. We strive to foster learning by students for current and future success, but what happens when our students fail to meet expectations of adult learners? How do we identify noncognitive barriers to student success? What interventions are possible inside and outside the academic institution to help individual students remediate noncognitive problems impacting their academic success? What can the institution do to modify the student’s environment to promote optimal performance? What problems does the institution encounter when dealing with noncognitive student issues? How do we combat stigma and bias? What is the role of faculty development, mentoring, and individual student advising and counseling? Do generational differences affect outcomes? How do non-remediated and continuing problems ultimately impact attrition, burnout, career development, health care delivery, and patient safety?

This session will begin with an overview followed by a small group discussion format and then group wrap up with sharing of experiences, problems, ideas, and potential solutions.