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
6 states in 12 months: A guide to life on the road during fourth year Fourth year is what you make it. Rachel Pray, OMS IV, shares how she embraced travel and adventure as much as possible during her fourth year.
Being a DO in a heavily MD residency program: What surprised me I was incredibly nervous to join a large MD-dominant internal medicine residency, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much my osteopathic training helped me excel.
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