Student Health DO pushes Missouri to improve mental health in medical school Missouri Senate Bill 52 means more consideration for medical students at risk of depression. July 11, 2017Tuesday The DO Staff Contact The DO Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Topics advocacymedical schoolmental healthstudents The governor of Missouri signed a bill into law Friday that will allow medical schools to take a closer look at specifically what is causing increased medical student depression, according to Missouri State Senator Jamilah Nasheed. Sen. Nasheed says the bill will also prohibit medical schools from discouraging students from spearheading or participating in mental health and depression studies. The bill was carried through the Missouri House of Representatives by Representative Keith Fredrick, DO, the chairman of Missouri’s Health and Mental Health Policy House Committee. The new regulations are part of Missouri Senate Bill 52, which also calls on all public universities to increase mental health programming and suicide prevention strategies for students on and off campus. Gov Greitens signs SB 52 this am: research preventn & tx for depressn & suicide for med students and college studnts. pic.twitter.com/SNde4RCc56 — Keith Frederick (@KeithJFrederick) July 7, 2017 Related article Advice for physicians struggling with burnout or mental illness Robert Piccinini, DO, says the best thing you can do to help a struggling physician is to talk to them about it. 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 articleRaise awareness of DOs by requesting PBS doc on your local station Next articleHow to maximize your reimbursement for OMT
Advice for physicians struggling with burnout or mental illness Robert Piccinini, DO, says the best thing you can do to help a struggling physician is to talk to them about it.
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.