Alternative Medicine:Implications for Clinical Practice

此应用程序的目的是请求对名为“补充和替代医学：临床实践的影响”的年度教育会议的部分支持。这次会议由替代医学研究和教育中心和哈佛医学院医学部每年主办，自1995年以来每年举办一次。它的教职员工由来自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的CAM调查人员。在这份R-13申请中，我们寻求国家补充和替代医学中心的支持，以维持和改进这一既定的年度CAM会议。申请的资金将用于：1)为负责课程规划、实施和评估的关键人员提供部分支持；2)为与课程教员有关的差旅和住宿提供部分支持，其中大部分是由NCCAM赞助的调查人员，以及CAM从业者、教育工作者和政策制定者；3)为视听设备提供部分支持，以确保残疾人可以使用；4)使课程主管能够进一步改进和扩展课程，包括努力增加课程教员中的少数族裔代表，并增加来自国际社会的CAM调查人员的参与；5)使课程主管能够在课程结束后第二天安排一次课程后评估会议，以便参与的教职员工可以提出具体建议，以继续改进课程。

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.