Complementary and Integrative Medicine Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：我们的目标是培养具有知识和技能的住院医师，在补充医学和综合医学方面进行科学严谨的研究。该计划将侧重于在预防和治疗慢性病方面可能有用的补充方法，并与传统医学相结合。该计划将强调两个领域：对天然产品(植物、草药和其他生物有机提取物)的评估；以及心理生物医学(冥想、社会支持、引导意象、灵性、瑜伽、太极和有氧运动)。 这项为期两年的计划将强调概念、方法论和实践基础，以在补充和综合医学方面进行方法学上的严格研究。这些研究员将报名参加临床流行病学和卫生服务研究的硕士课程，共20门必修课。此外，他们还将参加由CAM实践者教授的9个以CAM模式为重点的课程。每一位研究员都将完成所有课程，并在高度结构化的指导下，利用他们所获得的知识和技能来设计和实施自己的研究项目。这个项目是研究密集型的，研究项目是每个研究员工作的核心。CAM实践者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。 该计划建立在我们多学科教员的优势之上，他们合作了15年，拥有临床流行病学、卫生服务研究、行为科学、生物统计学、卫生经济学和医疗信息学方面的专业知识。我们现在已经与包括冥想、引导意象、瑜伽、太极、气功在内的心身医学从业者专家以及针灸和中医从业者专家建立了合作伙伴关系。 该计划将培养新的研究人员，以贡献新的知识，将有效的CAM治疗与无效或潜在有害的治疗区分开来。它将为研究员做好准备，使他们成为独立调查人员，能够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论方面的医生-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.