Educational Initiative in CAM

描述(由申请者提供)：该项目的目标是在乔治敦大学开发和实施一个教育项目， 整合补充医学和替代医学(CAM) 将信息纳入医学院学生的课程。在 医学院目前，学生接触CAM的唯一机会 信息是通过临床前课程中的临时讲座来获得的，或者 如果学生选择了少数几种可选体验中的一种。致信地址 针对这一严重不足，提出了一种协作性、综合性的方案 涉及医学教育工作者、CAM实践者和CAM研究人员。第一 我们方法的一步是开发和实施经验式和说教式的 为一年级学生开设的身心医学课程(最初为40人 自选学生，但到第三年，所有180名学生)。此外, 几个第一年的课程(包括基础科学和临床桥梁课程) 我承诺向所有人提供关于CAM相关方面的讲座 学生们。第二步将涉及开发和实施两个 选修课：CAM医学院二年级春季选修课 信息(治疗方式、草药等)四个人中有一个 关于CAM实践的医学年度。这些课程也将提供给 在项目的头两年，自选学生。小心翼翼地 对这些课程进行评估，第三步将确定核心CAM 内容将逐步整合到临床前和 在项目的2-5年中开设临床课程。第四步涉及到 向感兴趣的学生提供有关计算机辅助教学的研究内容。 除了教育未来的医生在CAM，一个主要的目标是 建议的计划是培训CAM教师，并将CAM引入 乔治敦大学的医学教育哲学。它的目标是 这个项目，在5年资助期结束时，所有毕业生 乔治敦大学医学院将提高对CAM的认识水平 信息和实践，以便他们能够理解和遵循 CAM方面的进展，以及更有效地建议和沟通 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