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LATEST NEWS
Summer Clinical Meeting, Saturday 19 May 2012.
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New Fees Letter now available in the Members' Section.
New Subs Letter now available in the Members' Section.
Database Update Form now available in the Members' Section.
Discussion forum
Can’t find what you are looking for? There is a lot of up to the minute advice currently shared on the MOSA discussion forum, please email rebecca.pryse@nhs.net if you wish to join in with this.
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MOSA was founded in 1884 in response to "the need for the general
adoption of more definite rules for guarding our great educational
establishments from the outbreak and spread of preventable infectious
disease".
Today, we are a professional association concerned with the provision of medical care in (mainly independent) schools. Most of our members are General Practitioners who act as Medical Officers to independent schools in their practice area. MOSA is now 125 years old.
“The aim of any residential setting must be to maintain and if possible
improve the health and medical condition of each young person. Health
refers to general well-being and comprises:
Physical health covering the functions of the body
Mental health subsuming intellectual, psychological, emotional,
spiritual and social health
Societal health which refers to the environment in which the young
person lives.”
From Anderson, E W “Residential and Boarding Education and Care for
Young People: A Model for Good Practice” Routledge, London 2005 p96
Associated professions connected with school health such as School
Nurses or Physiotherapists and members of the Teaching Profession can
become Associate Members.
We have about 400 members, in all parts of the United Kingdom.
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