Elsevier

EXPLORE

Volume 4, Issue 4, July 2008, Pages 278-281
EXPLORE

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Innovations in integrative healthcare education
Ways of Knowing: Integrating Research Into CAM Education and Holism Into Conventional Health Professional Education

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Content on integrative healthcare and complementary and alternative medicine is being taught in hundreds of educational programs across the country. Nursing, medical, osteopathic, chiropractic, acupuncture, naturopathic, and other programs are finding creative and innovative ways to include these approaches in new models of education and practice. This column spotlights such innovations in integrative healthcare and CAM education and presents readers with specific educational interventions they can adapt into new or ongoing educational efforts at their institution or programs.

We invite readers to submit brief descriptions of efforts in their institutions that reflect the creativity, diversity, and interdisciplinary nature of the field. Please submit to Dr Sierpina at [email protected] or Dr Kreitzer at [email protected]. Submissions should be no more than 500 to 1500 words. Please include any Web site or other resource that is relevant, as well as contact information.

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Incorporating Research Principles in CAM Education: Student and Faculty Perspectives

In recent years, there has been a growing movement to ensure that healthcare is more “evidence based,” which requires that providers know how to access clinically relevant research evidence and incorporate it into their clinical practice. Providers of complementary and alternative therapies are not exempt from this cultural demand, particularly as patients and third party payers expect more in terms of transparency and integrative care. This shift impacts CAM educational institutions, which

Masters in Holistic Health Education

Venerable (25 plus years old), but also cutting edge, the Masters in Holistic Health Education (HHE) program at John F. Kennedy University (JFKU) in the San Francisco Bay area inspires students to develop, communicate, and apply an integrative perspective to health education. The program makes use of Wilber's integral theory as a framework for exploring practical and sustainable ways to bring together traditional, allopathic, and holistic definitions of health (individual and collective) and

Victor S. Sierpina, MD, is the W. D. and Laura Nell Nicholson Professor of Integrative Medicine and Professor, Family Medicine, at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX. An associate editor for EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, he also serves as the Chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.

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Victor S. Sierpina, MD, is the W. D. and Laura Nell Nicholson Professor of Integrative Medicine and Professor, Family Medicine, at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX. An associate editor for EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing, he also serves as the Chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.

Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, is the founder and director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing and a professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. She served as vice-chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine from 2004 to 2007 and is currently on the Consortium's Executive Committee.

Michele Maiers, DC, MPH, is an assistant professor and the associate dean of research and knowledge transfer at Northwestern Health Sciences University.

Louise Delagran, MA, MEd, is an education specialist at the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota.

Lori Baldwin, MOM, LAc, is an assistant professor at Northwestern Health Sciences University.

Roni Evans, DC, MS, is the director, Wolfe-Harris Center for Clinical Studies and the dean of research at Northwestern Health Sciences University.

Michele Chase, PhD, is a professor and program chair for the MA in Holistic Health Education program at John F. Kennedy University in San Francisco, CA.

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