Wellbeing in Health Professions Education: Psychological, Educational, Social, and Organisational Perspectives

Wellbeing among health professions students has become an international priority, given increasing concerns about stress, anxiety, depression, burnout, and academic disengagement across nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and allied health education. Health professions education involves demanding curricula, clinical training, emotional exposure to patient care, and career-related concerns, while students’ experiences are also shaped by learning environments, social relationships, institutional practices, and broader educational systems. Wellbeing is therefore a multidimensional construct encompassing psychological, emotional, social, educational, and organisational dimensions. Recent research has highlighted individual resources such as resilience, emotional intelligence, psychological capital, self-esteem, social support, and adaptive coping, alongside supportive learning environments, effective teaching practices, positive relationships, and institutional support. At the same time, digital learning and artificial intelligence are reshaping teaching, learning, and student support. Understanding these interconnected factors is essential for developing evidence-informed educational approaches that promote student success, healthy professional development, and sustainable wellbeing throughout health professions education.The primary goal of this Research Topic is to advance understanding of the factors that shape wellbeing, learning, resilience, and academic success among students in health professions education. As concerns about student wellbeing continue to grow worldwide, there is a need to identify protective factors and evidence-informed approaches that support students throughout academic and clinical training. This collection aims to bring together multidisciplinary research examining how individual characteristics, educational environments, social relationships, organisational conditions, institutional policies, and emerging technologies contribute to wellbeing and professional development. Ultimately, the Research Topic seeks to inform educators, researchers, clinicians, and policymakers about strategies for creating supportive learning environments that foster wellbeing, resilience, meaningful learning, and healthy professional development among future healthcare professionals.This Research Topic welcomes multidisciplinary research examining wellbeing and learning across health professions education, including nursing, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, and allied health professions. Contributions may address psychological and emotional wellbeing, mental health, resilience, stress, burnout, emotional intelligence, psychological capital, self-esteem, coping, and social support, as well as educational, social, organisational, and systemic influences on student wellbeing. Relevant themes include learning and clinical environments, teaching and assessment practices, student–educator relationships, peer support, workload, institutional policies, equity and inclusion, professional identity, and career development. We also welcome research examining digital education, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies in relation to learning and wellbeing. We invite original research, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies, that provide evidence-based insights relevant to health professions education. Topic editors: Driss Ait Ali, Hicham Khabbache, Amelia Rizzo Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/85419/wellbeing-in-health-professions-education-psychological-educational-social-and-organisational-perspectives