Integration of Complementary and Alternative Medicine into the Medical Education Curriculum: a Workshop

Abstract

This is a report on a workshop entitled “Integration of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) into Medical Education Curriculum: Models In-Progress” held at the International Scientific Conference on Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine Research. Four universities, supported by funds from the National Institutes of Health, described their curriculums for medical students, and we discussed how to integrate CAM into conventional medical education. They recommended that CAM curriculums should be interdisciplinary and be developed by specialists in various fields. They emphasized the need to train students to evaluate CAM by means of evidence-based medicine and to embrace CAM.