Research CAMP: Research in Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program

描述(由申请人提供)：临床决策应基于可获得的最佳证据。大多数情况下，这一证据来自生物医学研究。因此，重要的是，医学院的课程内容中包含了开创性的科学文献，并教导所有医学生如何对研究进行批判性评估。国家自然医学院(NCNM)致力于使用以科学为基础的课程来培训自然疗法医生和中医。然而，目前的课程并没有在整个课程中加强对科学文献的批判性评估。此外，NCNM的大多数教职员工都没有接受过对研究进行批判性评估或进行生物医学研究的正式培训。因此，本项目的主要目标是增加我们的教职员工和学生的研究培训内容。我们的计划有四个具体目标。第一个目标是制定研究教育课程计划，并将其落实到NCNM博士项目的课程--课程工作和临床经验中。我们将在教学课程中加强和正规化研究和循证医学技能，然后在整个计划中整合和整合这些技能。将培训学生在制定患者治疗策略时使用科学文献。第二个目标是在研究内容、技能和教学策略方面培训教师。我们将开发和实施两个短期课程，向教师介绍研究概念和教学策略。一支“先锋学院”团队将接受培训，以协助每位教员转换课程中的关键课程。对于第三个目标，我们将评估研究教育倡议的影响。我们将评估教师和学生对在他们的课程中进行研究的知识和态度。最后，在目标四中，我们将传播研究CAM计划(R-CAMP)，并与其他拥有CAM研究教育倡议的机构合作。我们将向其他CAM从业者开放短期课程的报名。此外，我们将在几个会议前的研讨会上、DVD上或通过网络研讨会提供来自我们的短期课程的内容。我们还将把我们使用的策略和流程传播给其他希望实施类似计划的CAM学校。从这些目标出发，我们期望未来的自然疗法医生和中医师将有更强的能力对生物医学文献进行批判性评估，更有能力参与临床研究，并促进将CAM和传统医疗服务整合为以患者为中心的初级保健方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Clinical decision making should be based upon the best evidence available. Most often, this evidence comes from biomedical research. Thus, it is important that medical school curriculum contain the seminal scientific literature in its content, and that it teach all medical students how to critically evaluate research. The National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) is committed to using a science-based curriculum to train naturopathic physicians and Chinese medicine practitioners. However, the current curriculum does not reinforce critical evaluation of scientific literature throughout the curriculum. In addition, most of the faculty members at NCNM have not been formally trained in critical evaluation of research, or in the conduct of biomedical research. Hence, the main goal of this project is to increase the research training content for our faculty and students. Our program has four specific aims. The first aim is to develop a research education curriculum plan and implement it in the NCNM doctoral program's curriculum-coursework and clinical experiences. We will strengthen and formalize research and EBM skills in didactic courses, then incorporate and integrate these skills throughout the program. Students will be trained to use scientific literature in formulating patient treatment strategies. The second aim is to train faculty in research content, skills, and teaching strategies. We will develop and implement two short-courses to introduce faculty to research concepts and teaching strategies. A team of "Vanguard Faculty" will be trained to assist each faculty member in the transformation of key lectures in their course. For the third aim, we will evaluate the impact of the research education initiative. We will evaluate faculty and student's knowledge and attitudes about having research in their courses. Finally, in aim four, we will disseminate Research CAM Program (R-CAMP) and collaborate with other institutions that have CAM research education initiatives. We will open enrollment in the short-courses to other CAM practitioners. In addition, we will offer content derived from our short-courses in workshops before several conferences, on DVD, or via webinar. We will also disseminate the strategy and process we use to other CAM schools who wish to implement similar programs. From these aims, we expect that future naturopathic physicians and Chinese Medicine practitioners will have an enhanced ability to critically evaluate biomedical literature, be more equipped to participate in clinical research and facilitate the integration of CAM and conventional health care delivery into a patient centered primary care approach.