Complementary medicine and medical education

The Tower of Babel: communication and medicine: An essay on medical education and complementary-alternative medicine.

C omplementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is constantly gaining in popularity. Despite its widespread use, valid concerns have been raised regarding the integration of CAM into the health care system. Certainly, the gap between allopathy and CAM is very substantive. It pertains to methodology and rigorous applications of scientific standards of evidence, among other issues, as well as to th...

Physical medicine and medical education.

Erratum to “Complementary and Alternative Medicine Education for Medical Profession: Systematic Review”

Purpose. To help integrate traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) into health systems, efforts are being made to educate biomedical doctors (BMD) and medical students on TCAM. We systematically evaluated the effect of TCAM education on BMD and medical students' attitude, knowledge, and behavior towards TCAM utilization and integration with biomedical medicine. Methods. Evalu...

Factors influencing the inclusion of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in undergraduate medical education

Objective To investigate the views and practices of UK medical schools regarding the inclusion (or exclusion) of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in undergraduate medical curricula. Design Survey (by email) of UK medical schools offering MBBS (or equivalent) degrees. Results The overall response rate was 58.1% (18/31). All respondents indicated that their curricula included CAM el...

Creativity in Medicine and Medical Education

Contributors: Dr Dominic Slowie, Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne; Shee Lippell, University of Plymouth Business School; Jill Dales; Peter Campion, University of Hull; Sarah Gull; Amanda Howe, Institute of Health University of East Anglia; Gill McConnell, University of Edinburgh; Eva Doherty, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; Penny Morris, University of Leeds; Rafey Faruqui, Imperial Col...