Alternative medicine is increasingly popular especially in German‐speaking areas of Europe. In the beginning, Ayurveda played a leading role within a trend of deeply relaxing wellness therapies. Today, even in medical circles, Ayurveda is widely recognized as a complementary system of medicine and has reached the threshold of entering into the realm of evidence‐based science. In several Europea...

http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6979.full?sid=0c9ee36b-72ab-409a-b94b4e7ba1a7c408 Cite this as: BMJ 2010; 341:c6979 Integrative medicine and the point of credulity 1. John C McLachlan, professor of medical education + Author Affiliations 1. School of Medicine and Health, Durham University, Stockton-on-Tees TS17 6BH, UK 1. [email protected] So called integrative medicine should not ...

BACKGROUND Experts have historically recommended better integration of public health content into medical education. Whether this adoption is associated with physician practice location has not been studied. PURPOSE To examine the association between medical student perception of their public health and community medicine instruction and practice location in a Health Professional Shortage Are...

Integrative Medicine • Vol. 13, No. 1 • February 2014 22 Hanaway—Viewpoints Patrick Hanaway, MD, is the director of medical education for the Institute for Functional Medicine and its 2014 conference, which will be held May 29-31, 2014, in San Francisco, California. Dr Hanaway is a board-certified family physician, holding a medical degree from Washington University with residency training at t...

BACKGROUND Disaster Medicine training is not included in medical education curriculum in China, even though the country has suffered various disasters annually. We intended to assess the need for continual education regarding disaster management for health professionals in China. METHODS A survey was conducted among 324 health professionals who participated in the response to the Wenchuan ear...

Internationally medical student debt is a cause of concern. A survey of medical students in UCC (response rate of 191 representing 35% of the EU student cohort) reveals that 34 (26%) of direct entry medicine (DEM) students and 36 (61%) graduate entrants (GEM) have a loan with an anticipated average debt of Euro17,300 and Euro80,000 on graduation respectively. Fifty-three (90%) graduate entrants...

abstract the aim of this paper is to illustrate the role of metaphor in education. the main thesis is that the metaphors shape our attitude towards education implicitly.  with this aim in mind, first, the concept of metaphor is briefly introduced, and then three of the most famous metaphors that have been used in education (factories, gardening and travel), and their differences are discussed. ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The University of Louisville School of Medicine Trover Campus (ULTC) was established in rural west Kentucky in 1998 with the purpose of increasing the number of rural physicians. Utilizing the affinity model, a primary goal of the ULTC is to encourage rural students to pursue a medical education and return to rural Kentucky for practice. One aspect of this geographical...

AIM To describe practicing physicians' perceived clinical utility of genome sequencing. MATERIALS & METHODS We conducted a mixed-methods analysis of data from 18 primary care physicians and cardiologists in a study of the clinical integration of whole-genome sequencing. Physicians underwent brief genomics continuing medical education before completing surveys and semi-structured interviews. ...

One hundred currently practicing physicians were surveyed regarding screening and management of domestic violence to determine whether mandatory continuing medical education (CME) is likely to increase awareness of and response to domestic violence. The authors surveyed 25 family physicians and 25 obstetrician/gynecologists in each of two states, Florida and New Jersey. In addition, they polled...