News in brief Physicians targeted in extortion scam by criminals posing as DEA agents Criminals are calling physicians, demanding money, and threatening to suspend their target’s DEA registration. April 3, 2018Tuesday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency reports that physicians and the public have been targeted by criminals posing as DEA agents. Criminals mask their telephone number on caller ID, instead displaying a DEA support number, then demand money or threaten to terminate their target’s DEA registration. The DEA urges physicians who receive such calls to report the information to the DEA here. 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 articleIn Memoriam: April 3, 2018 Next articleNRMP Match results: DO students participate and match in record numbers
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.