Guest guest Posted January 19, 2004 Report Share Posted January 19, 2004 Hi All, Is this just another pipe-dream? Best regards, Phil >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excerpt from Report on Institute of Medicine Committee Meeting on Use of Complementary & Alternative Medicine December 11, 2003. by Randall Neustaedter, LAc, OMD, CSOMA Director: …only effective ways to learn Integrative Med is to present ONE MEDICINE (not a belief system), to retain open-minded skepticism, to make CAM practices part of required curriculum, & to involve CAM practitioners in interdisciplinary activities. This means CAM practitioners must be present in Med schools to teach & to give hands on patient care. CAM must be integrated into every core area including anatomy (acupuncture anatomy), pathology (models from oriental medicine), & treatment. This needs to happen despite hostility of faculty, inevitable conflict with an EBM approach to teaching, & time constraints. Dehumanising eager & idealistic Med students in their training programs was discussed at length. Conclusion was that Med students required exposure to CAM in clinical practice for benefit of their own healing & mental/spiritual health. A director of Med Edu at Georgetown University & Dean of Med Edu at Mt Sinai medical school said this. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best regards, Email: < WORK : Teagasc Research Management, Sandymount Ave., Dublin 4, Ireland Mobile: 353-; [in the Republic: 0] HOME : 1 Esker Lawns, Lucan, Dublin, Ireland Tel : 353-; [in the Republic: 0] WWW : http://homepage.eircom.net/~progers/searchap.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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