INTEGRATING CAM INTO HEALTH-PROFESSIONS EDUCATION

描述（申请人的摘要）：该拟议项目旨在加速 将补充和替代教育纳入教育体系， 北卡罗来纳州大学卫生专业学校的课程， 选择住院医师项目， 努力，包括一个创新的继续医学教育计划和CAM课程教授， 北卡罗来纳州的区域健康教育系统。通过该计划， 北卡罗来纳州大学医学院的中西医结合， 该项目将开发、实施、完善和评估创新的 跨学科和多学科教育战略， 将CAM信息纳入教育和培训， 卫生专业的学生，教师和医生在医学，护理， 牙科、药学、公共卫生、社会工作和联合卫生。 具体而言，该项目的目标是： 1)开发CAM教育材料，包括书面和基于网络的 媒体，适应各种卫生专业受众的需要; 2)通过具体的培训， 教育活动; 3)提高CAM从业人员的教学技能， 这个项目，利用一个既定的社区导师培训计划。 4)将适当的补充和辅助医疗内容纳入社区卫生学校的课程; 5)在选定的CAM概念培训项目中接触住院医师 技能; 6)通过以下方式向社区医生和执业护士介绍CAM： 扩大目前的非全日制访问临床医生计划（兼职 个性化CE计划），包括CAM教育和培训机会; 7)教育社区卫生专业人员的跨学科受众 通过在多个地点提供系列研讨会， 数控航空电子控制系统 8)记录项目的教育活动，并评估是否 教育战略导致了整体能力的变化 （知识，态度和技能）在卫生学校毕业生，居民， 教师和社区卫生专业人员。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): This proposed project seeks to accelerate the integration of complementary and alternative (CAM) education into the curricula of health professions schools at the University of North Carolina, into selected medical residency programs, and into continuing education efforts, including an innovative CME program and a CAM curriculum taught in the Area Health Education System (AHEC) of North Carolina. Through the Program on Integrative Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, this project will develop, implement, refine and evaluate innovative interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary educational strategies for incorporating CAM information into the education and training of health-professions students, faculty and practitioners in medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, social work, and allied health. Specifically, the aims of the project are: 1) to develop CAM educational materials, including both written and web-based media, adaptable to the needs of various health-professions audiences; 2) to increase UNC faculty interest and knowledge about CAM via specific educational activities; 3) to enhance the instructional skills of CAM practitioners who will teach in this project, using an established community preceptor training program. 4) to integrate appropriate CAM content into UNC health-schools curricula; 5) to reach medical residents in selected training programs about CAM concepts and skills; 6) to introduce community physicians and nurse-practitioners to CAM by expanding the current UNC Visiting Clinician Program (a part-time individualized CE program) to include CAM education and training opportunities; 7) to educate interdisciplinary audiences of community health professionals about CAM by offering seminar series at multiple sites in cooperation with the NC AHEC system; 8) to document the educational activities of the project and evaluate whether the educational strategies have resulted in changes in overall competence (knowledge, attitudes, and skills) in UNC health-schools graduates, residents, faculty, and community health professionals.