News in brief National Institutes of Health will host a dietary supplement research practicum The deadline to apply for the Mary Frances Picciano Dietary Supplement Research Practicum is April 10, 2017. March 30, 2017Thursday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Learn about the issues, concepts, unknowns and controversies of dietary supplements and supplement ingredients at a 2.5-day research practicum. The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now accepting applications for the Mary Frances Picciano Dietary Supplement Research Practicum. The practicum will be held at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, May 31-June 2, 2017. The practicum will also emphasize the importance of scientific investigations to evaluate efficacy, safety and value of supplements for health promotion and disease prevention. The deadline to apply for the practicum is April 10, 2017. There is no cost to attend. Attendees are responsible for room, board and transportation expenses. The practicum is open to: Health care providers and scientists with a master’s degree or higher whose work involves dietary supplements. Full-time academic faculty and doctoral-level students in health-related disciplines such as nutrition, food science, pharmacology and pharmacognosy, exercise science and kinesiology, medicine, dentistry, nursing, and complementary and alternative medicine. Master’s-level students in health-related programs. Students in professional schools such as medicine, dentistry, and nursing. More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous articleThe Military Match: 3 Q&As with a student who matched with the US Army Next articleHow DMU-COM prepares students to practice rural medicine
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