NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER | October, 2022
Planned osteopathic school’s graduates will bring the light of Catholic truth and bioethics to health care.
As he assists doctors at a Missouri hospital as a medical scribe, Benedictine College senior Joe Roberts, 22, is getting experience that will help him become an emergency physician. Along with working in emergency medicine, he hopes to one day use his faith and knowledge of Catholic bioethics to help a hospital system more fully embrace the culture of life.
Roberts graduates from the Atchison, Kansas, college next spring and probably won’t wait to start his formal medical training until a proposed Catholic-focused medical school opens on the Benedictine campus in 2026. But he’s not ruling out attending the St. Padre Pio Institute for the Relief of Suffering, School of Osteopathic Medicine because he loves the idea of training faithful doctors who share his hopes for medicine.
“I do think [the proposed school] is going to transform medicine,”…
