Educational Initiative in CAM

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目的目标是 在乔治敦大学制定和实施一项教育计划， 整合补充和替代医学（CAM） 将信息纳入医学院学生的课程。在 目前，医学院唯一接触CAM的学生 信息是通过临床前课程中偶尔的讲座，或 如果一个学生选择了几个可选的经验之一。解决 针对这一严重缺陷，提出了一个合作和全面的计划， 包括医学教育者、CAM从业者和CAM研究人员。第一 我们方法的一个步骤是开发和实施一个经验和教学 为一年级学生开设的身心医学课程（最初为40 学生是自主选择的，但到第三年，所有180名学生）。此外，本发明还提供了一种方法， 几个第一年课程（基础科学和临床桥梁课程） 我已承诺，包括讲座CAM的相关方面，以所有 学生第二步将涉及制定和实施两个 选修课程：一是在医学院第二年春季对CAM 信息（治疗方式、草药等）四分之一 关于CAM实践的医疗年。这些课程还将提供给 在项目的前两年，学生们都是自己选的。经过仔细 评估这些课程后，第三步将确定CAM的核心 内容将逐步整合到临床前和 在项目的第2-5年的临床课程。第四步涉及 增加一个关于计算机辅助教学的研究部分，向感兴趣的学生提供。 除了在CAM中教育未来的医生外， 提出的计划，以培训教师在CAM和引入CAM到 乔治城大学的医学教育哲学。它的目标是 这个项目，到5年赠款期结束时，所有毕业生 乔治敦医学院将提高对CAM的认识水平 信息和实践，以便他们能够理解和遵循 CAM的进步，以及建议和更有效地沟通， 他们的病人

DESCRIPTION (Provided by applicant): The objective of this project is to develop and implement an educational program at Georgetown University that incorporates and integrates Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) information into the curriculum for students in the School of Medicine. In the School of Medicine at present, the only exposure students receive to CAM information is through an occasional lecture in the preclinical curriculum, or if a student opts for one of a few elective experiences available. To address this serious deficiency, a collaborative and comprehensive program is proposed involving medical educators, CAM practitioners and CAM researchers. The first step of our approach is to develop and implement an experiential and didactic Mind- Body Medicinecourse for first year students (initially for 40 self-selected students but by year 3 for all 180 students). In addition, several first year courses (both basic science and clinical bridge courses) have committed to including lectures on relevant aspects of CAM to all students. A second step will involve development and implementation of two elective courses: one in the Spring of the second year of medical school on CAM information (treatment modalities, herbal medicine, etc.) and one in the fourth medical year on CAM practices. These courses will also be offered to self-selected students during the first two years of the project. After careful evaluation of these courses, the third step will be to determine the core CAM content that will be progressively integrated into both the preclinical and clinical curricula in years 2-5 of the project. The fourth step involves the addition of a research component on CAM to be offered to interested students. In addition to educating future medical doctors in CAM, a major aim of the proposed program to train faculty in CAM and to introduce CAM into the philosophy of medical education at Georgetown University. It is the goal of this project that, by the end of the 5 year grant period, all graduates of Georgetown's medical school will have an improved level of awareness about CAM information and practices, so that they will be able to understand and follow the advances in CAM, as well as advise and communicate more effectively with their patients