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BACKGROUND Today, the increasing demand for complementary medicine encourages health care providers to adapt and create integrative medicine departments or services within clinics. However, because of their differing philosophies, historical development, and settings, merging the partners (conventional and complementary medicine) is often difficult. It is necessary to understand the similaritie...

In December 2015, J‑AIM is completing six years of its publication. In the history of academic journals, six years is a very short period to expect any noticeable impact. According to the Indian tradition, the period of 12 years or one mandala of hard work is known as " Tapas. " J‑AIM has just completed only half a mandala. During this period, we have tried to take baby steps toward our goal to...

OBJECTIVES Biomedicine and complementary and alternative medicine are forming new relationships, under the rubric of integrative medicine. Recently, the military has adopted integrative medicine as the model for pain management. An evaluation was conducted on an integrative model for pain management at a major Army medical center to determine the distinct challenges that were encountered during...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of clinics offer complementary or integrative medicine services; however, clear guidance about how complementary medicine could be successfully and efficiently integrated into conventional health care settings is still lacking. Combining conventional and complementary medicine into integrative medicine can be regarded as a kind of merger. In a merger, two or more...

BACKGROUND Evolving patient preferences as well as an expanding evidence base for commonly used complementary and alternative medicine therapies for patients with cancer have led to inroads by integrative medicine into clinical oncology. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been used in conjunction with conventional biomedicine in the prevention and treatment of cancer in China for several de...

Background. Evidence rankings do not consider equally internal (IV), external (EV), and model validity (MV) for clinical studies including complementary and alternative medicine/integrative medicine (CAM/IM) research. This paper describe this model and offers an EV assessment tool (EVAT©) for weighing studies according to EV and MV in addition to IV. Methods. An abbreviated systematic review me...

‘‘Sixteen years as a general practitioner [GP] showed me that the prevailing biomedical reductionist model fails to address the complexity of human experience and psychosomatic illness that daily practice brings up, and for which I was not trained. Even at the purely physical level, there are huge gaps in conventional training with virtually no training in musculoskeletal medicine (a huge compo...

There is evidence the world over of growing public demand for making available healthcare choices, based upon best practices, drawn from different healthcare systems.[1] The demand for pluralism in healthcare appears to be based on a realistic assessment of the inadequacy of any single system of healthcare to solve all contemporary health needs.[2] It is probably this assessment that is respons...

The Author Replies: Although medical practitioners may possess the sophistication to distinguish among complementary, integrative, and alternative therapies, the average patient is unfortunately not as health-literate. Time and again, and nowhere more than in the field of oncology, the patients who turn to alternative therapies are those who eschew conventional treatment and feel that alternati...