Healthy habits Ideas for boosting exercise and nutrition education in medical school To improve the nation’s health, future physicians should receive more training on advising patients on healthy eating and physical activity. Jan. 3, 2024WednesdayJanuary 2024 issue OMS Life Sean Pecoraro, OMS IV Sean Pecoraro is a fourth-year medical student at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. Contact Student Doctor Pecoraro
Applications for the AOA’s 2025-2026 TIPS program now being accepted This cycle, TIPS sessions will focus on physician payment models, health care reform, social determinants of health, the opioid epidemic and current public health issues.
NAM accepting nominations for health science fellowships until June 3 These fellowships are part-time, two-year opportunities for outstanding early-career candidates interested in working directly with the NAM and the National Academies.
If we really want to improve the nation’s health, all medical schools and nursing schools need to have required and standardized education on vaccines. Vaccines should not be an opinion. They are the greatest medical advance since Smallpox vaccination began. We have been able to eradicate disease with vaccination. The pandemic showed us that both doctors and nurses are poorly educated regarding vaccines. Nutrition does not matter if a child dies from pertussis or a parent dies from covid. The highest priority for change in education curricula should be vaccination education across the board. Jan. 18, 2024, at 8:08 am Reply