Medical students in Malaysia face enormous amount of stress that can compromise their medical training. A brief group Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (b-MBCT/Mindful-Gym) programme has been developed to help medical students cope more effectively with stress. The intervention was found to be effective for reducing stress and increasing subjective well-being among medical students in University Putra Malaysia (UPM). One of the training methodologies used in the programme,‘Mindful-STOP,’was particularly popular among the students. The aim of this paper is to describe the concept and application of this mindfulnessbased psychological tool (Mindful-STOP) for stress reduction in medical students.