News in Brief NYITCOM promotes a healthy lifestyle inside and outside of classroom The school’s Fit Physicians pilot study includes wellness seminars, activity monitors and weekly fitness sessions. Oct. 28, 2016Friday The DO Staff Contact The DO Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email From day one of medical school, DOs learn to focus on prevention by promoting a healthy lifestyle to their patients. First-year medical students at the New York Institute Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine in Old Westbury, New York, have the opportunity to practice integrating those healthy habits into their own lives as part of a new randomized pilot trial. As part of the Fit Physicians year-long study, 40 of 120 medical students in the trial are using activity monitors, attending monthly wellness lectures and receiving regular feedback on their exercise regimens. The study will measure physical activity, academic scores, sleep and stress levels in this group against two other groups: a control group and a group that will wear fitness trackers but not participate in wellness programs. “As a medical school, we need to be a leader in promoting health and wellness for our students, our faculty members, our patients at the Riland Academic Health Care Center, and the patients of the future,” said Jerry Balentine, DO, a co-investigator for the study, in a statement from the school. The researchers will present their findings at the American College of Sports Medicine conference in May 2017. 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 articleA voice for the voiceless: What it's like to practice forensic medicine Next articleOsteopathic recognition matters: Medical students value the 'DO difference'
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.