Complementary and Integrative Medicine Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的目标是准备后住院医师的知识和技能进行科学严谨的研究补充和综合医学。该计划将侧重于可能有助于预防和治疗慢性病并与传统医学相结合的补充方法。该计划将强调两个领域：天然产品（植物，草药和其他生物有机提取物）的评估;和心理生物医学（冥想，社会支持，引导图像，灵性，瑜伽，太极和有氧运动）。 为期两年的计划将强调概念，方法和实践基础，以进行方法上严格的研究补充和综合医学。研究员将参加临床流行病学和卫生服务研究硕士课程，其中有20门必修课程。此外，他们将参加九门课程，重点是CAM模式和CAM从业人员授课。每个研究员将完成所有课程，并利用他们的知识和技能，设计和进行高度结构化的指导下自己的研究项目。该计划是研究密集型的，研究项目是每个研究员工作的核心。计算机辅助教学从业员将组成一个合作研究网络，为不同学科的研究员项目提供基础。 该计划是建立在我们的多学科教师，谁已经合作了十五年，在临床流行病学，卫生服务研究，行为科学，生物统计学，卫生经济学和医学信息学的专业知识的优势。 我们现在已经与CAM医生在身心医学方面的专家建立了合作关系，包括冥想，引导图像，瑜伽，太极，气功，以及针灸和传统中医的医生专家。 该计划将准备新的研究人员贡献新的知识，区分有效的CAM治疗无效或潜在有害的。它将培养研究员成为独立的调查人员，他们可以成功地竞争同行审查的资金。该计划的一个关键要素是促进少数民族学者在补充和综合医学研究领域的发展。 我们博士后计划的总体目标是培养研究方法学方面的医生-科学家专家，他们将继续进行自己的CAM研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our objective is to prepare post-residency physicians with knowledge and skills to conduct scientifically rigorous research in complementary and integrative medicine. The program will focus on complementary approaches that may be useful in the prevention and treatment of chronic illnesses and integrated with conventional medicine. The program will emphasize two areas: evaluation of natural products (botanical, herbal and other bio-organic extracts); and psychobiological medicine (meditation, social support, guided imagery, spirituality, yoga, tai chi, and aerobic exercise). The two-year program will emphasize conceptual, methodological and practical foundations to conduct methodologically rigorous research in complementary and integrative medicine. The fellows will enroll in the Master's Program in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research with 20 required courses. In addition, they will enroll in nine courses focusing on CAM modalities and taught by CAM practitioners. Each fellow will complete all courses and use their resultant knowledge and skills to design and conduct their own research project under highly structured mentorship. This program is research intensive and the research projects are at the core of each fellow's work. The CAM practitioners will form a collaborative research network to provide the foundation for fellows' projects in different disciplines. The program is built on the strengths of our multidisciplinary faculty, who have collaborated for fifteen years, with expertise in clinical epidemiology, health services research, behavioral science, biostatistics, health economics and medical informatics. We have now developed a partnership with CAM practitioner experts in mind-body medicine including meditation, guided imagery, yoga, tai chi, qigong, and practitioner experts in acupuncture and traditional Chinese Medicine. This program will prepare new investigators to contribute new knowledge that distinguishes effective CAM treatments from ineffective or potentially harmful ones. It will prepare fellows to become independent investigators who can successfully compete for peer-reviewed funding. A key element of the program is to foster the development of minority scholars in the field of complementary and integrative medicine research. The overall goal of our post-doctoral program is to develop physician-scientist experts in research methodology, who will go on to conduct their own CAM research.