Alternative Medicine:Implications for Clinical Practice

本申请的目的是为年度教育会议“补充和替代医学：对临床实践的影响”请求部分支持。该会议由替代医学研究与教育中心和哈佛医学院医学部每年主办一次，自1995年以来每年举办一次。其教师由CAM社区的领导者组成，包括NIH资助的调查员和中心主任，CAM从业者和教育工作者，CAM政策制定者，以及来自国际社会的主要CAM调查员。在这个R-13申请中，我们寻求国家补充和替代医学中心的支持，以维持和改进这个既定的年度CAM会议。申请资金将用于：1)为负责课程规划、实施和评估的关键人员提供部分支持；2)为课程教师（主要是NCCAM赞助的研究人员）以及CAM从业者、教育工作者和政策制定者提供部分旅行和住宿支持；3)对音像设备提供部分支持，确保残障人士无障碍使用；4)使课程主任能够进一步完善和扩展课程，包括努力增加课程教师中少数民族的代表性，并增加国际社会CAM调查员的参与；5)使课程主管能够在课程结束后的第二天安排课程后评估会议，以便参与的教师能够提出具体的建议，以便在每年的基础上继续改进项目。

The purpose of this application is to request partial support for an annual educational conference entitled, "Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Implications for Clinical Practice." This conference, sponsored annually by the Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education and the Department of Medicine of Harvard Medical School, has been offered each year since 1995. Its faculty is composed of leaders from the CAM community, including NIH funded investigators and Center directors, CAM practitioners and educators, CAM policy makers, as well as leading CAM investigators from the international community. In this R-13 application, we seek support from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in order to maintain and improve this established annual CAM conference. Funds being requested will be used to: 1) Provide partial support for key personnel responsible for course planning, implementation and evaluation; 2) Provide partial support for travel and accommodations associated with course faculty, the majority of whom are investigators sponsored by NCCAM, as well as CAM practitioners, educators and policy makers; 3) Provide partial support for audio-video equipment to ensure access for individuals with disabilities; 4) Enable the course directors to further refine and expand the course, including efforts to increase minority representation of course faculty and to increase participation by CAM investigators from the international community; 5) Enable course directors to schedule a post-course evaluation session the day after the course so that participating faculty can make specific recommendations for continued refinement of the program on a year to year basis.