Alternative Medicine:Implications for Clinical Practice

此申请的目的是请求部分支持年度教育会议，题为“补充和替代医学：临床实践的影响。“这个会议每年由替代医学研究和教育中心和哈佛医学院医学系赞助，自1995年以来每年都举办。其教师由CAM社区的领导人组成，包括NIH资助的研究人员和中心主任，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领先CAM研究人员。在这项R-13申请中，我们寻求国家补充和替代医学中心的支持，以维持和改善这一既定的年度CAM会议。所要求的资金将用于：⑴向负责课程规划、执行和评价的关键人员提供部分支助; ⑵向课程教员提供部分旅费和住宿费支助，这些教员大多数是NCCAM赞助的调查人员以及CAM从业人员、教育工作者和决策者; 3）为视听设备提供部分支持，以确保残疾人无障碍使用; 4）使课程主任能够进一步完善和扩大课程，包括努力增加少数民族在课程教师中的代表性，并增加来自国际社会的CAM调查人员的参与; 5）使课程主任能够在课程结束后的第二天安排一次课后评估会议，以便参与教师能够提出具体建议，以便每年继续改进该计划。

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.