SIU class series to teach techniques to pair with treatments for pain, chronic conditions Is stress affecting your health? Is pain causing you stress? A new class at Southern Illinois University Neuroscience Institute aims to use mindfulness-based meditation techniques to complement traditional medical and psychological treatments. SIU Psychiatry is offering an 8-week class on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, starting at 6 pm on Monday, January 22, at Simmons Cancer Institute at SIU, 315 W. Carpenter St. in Springfield. The public is invited to attend a free orientation to learn more about

Next time you’re in the library be sure to greet Sam Skeleton, the library’s newest staff member. You’re most likely to find him skulking around the front desk during library open hours, but he’s available as a study buddy by request at the front desk. Sam comes to us from 3B Scientific. Bones. The booklet he carries with him includes the Latin and English names for each point. Study aid features include: flexible spine and ligaments spinal nerves and vertebral arteries fully flexible limbs on his right side. muscle origins and insertions, and other features are numbered. If you’d like to chat

View a collection of origami donated to the Library by Nancy Graves MD, who finished her residency in psychiatry at SIU in 2009. She used beautifully patterned papers to create the intricately folded shapes. The collection is currently in the Library's display wall exhibit cases. Selections from the origami collection

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SIU School of Medicine authors published 40 articles in the past month that were added to PubMed. See the list at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/carol.gordon.1/collections/53…

The fall issue of the Library Newsletter is now available on our newsletter page.

Peer review is defined as the evaluation or assessment of health care delivery, based upon outcome criteria, that is conducted by the peers of the professionals charged with delivering patient care. The purpose of peer review is: To provide a protected place for candid and self-reflective conversation among peers To reduce morbidity and mortality To improve future outcomes The focus of a peer review activity is generally the care provided by an individual. Information that is protected under peer review is not discoverable and is inadmissible during malpractice proceedings. In the State of

Prep program begins ninth year

Prep program begins ninth year

Alumni, medical students, MEDPREP and PA students, guests and friends gathered for the SIU SOM tailgate on October 14, 2017, in Carbondale for SIU's homecoming. The event was sponsored by the SIU School of Medicine Alumni Society.