All medical schools across the country teach their students how to diagnose mental illnesses. No school, however, has made it a requirement to teach these future doctors how to care for patients with mental illnesses.

So in 2018, Des Moines University partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness to offer a Provider Education Program. This course started off as an elective but students believed it was worth it and now the class is required.

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