Advances in IntegrativeComplementary

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Advances in Integrative/Complementary
Alternative Medicine Education Progress Notes

• Victor S. Sierpina, M.D.
• Associate Professor of Family Medicine
• Galveston, Texas

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Evidence-Based Curriculum in Alternative Therapies

• University of Texas Medical Branch
• Galveston, Texas

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Principal Investigator Victor S. Sierpina, MD
Co-Directors Robert Bulik, PhD Susan Gerik, MD
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Specific Aims

• Set up an administrative structure
• Develop and deliver longitudinal curriculum
  content
  
• Evaluate educational methods and outcomes and
  disseminate the model of the Core CAM Curriculum
  Committee (CCCC)

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UTMB - Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Allied
Health
Office of Educational Development (OED)
Academic Technology Center / Technology Progra
ms
AHEC/Community- based Education and Faculty Deve
lopment Program / Generalist Physician Initiativ
e
(GPI)
Core CAM Curriculum Committee
Community Practitioners
National Organizations (STFM, AAMC)
Alternative Medicine Institutions
State Organizations American Botanical Council (
ABC) / TX Academy of
Fam. Physicians (TAFP)
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Axis III - Lifelong Learning Skills Attitudes
Axis I - Knowledge of CAM Content
Healing Environment
Axis II - Communication Skills Attitudes
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Roles of CCCC

• Expert consultants on education and CAM content
• Review curriculum elements for inclusion of
  relevant areas of CAM
  
• Provide demonstrations/lectures as needed

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Roles of CCCC

• Review cases in person and on Web CT
• Write cases and Ask the Expert segments for
  cases
  
• Present at national and regional conferences
• Politics

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Institutional Impact

• Acceptance
• Integration
• Expansion
• Changed mind-set
• Cultural change

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Examples of Integration

• Practice of Medicine courses 12
• Grand Rounds, FM, Surgery, Anesthesiology,
  OB-GYN, IM, Geriatrics
  
• Journal Club
• Faculty development
• Independent presentations

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Projects

• Integration into curriculum
• Didactic sessions
• Standardized patients
• Web-based cases
• Data bases
• HealthNotes Online
• Scientific Basis of Holistic Medicine

Student Wellness Center Faculty Development Comm
unity-based preceptors
Individuals / campus wide
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Projects cont.

• Website enhancement and re-design
• Faculty developmentindividuals
• Library resources, references
• Student development and support
• Predoctoral and residency HRSA Grants / Faculty
  Development

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Evaluation

• Student surveyslongitudinal
• Community faculty survey
• Student Wellness survey
• Spirituality for Nursing and Medical Students
• Survey on Student Attitudes, Knowledge, and Skills

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Up and Down then Back Up

• Support from Deans, President, other key
  administrative personnel
  
• Incorporation of curriculum committee and
  associate deans into Core CAM Curriculum
  Committee
  
• Integration at level of curriculum committees in
  first and second years
  
• Guerrilla Curriculum Design

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Interdisciplinary Opportunities

• Presentations at School of Nursing, Preventive
  Medicine and Community Health, School of Allied
  Health
  
• Community presentations (Mini-Medical School),
  Seniors Night Out
  
• Review course CME pediatrics, internal medicine,
  orthopedics, otolaryngology, pain clinic
  
• Employee Fit For Life Courses

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Off Campus, National Opportunities

• AHMA
• Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
• AAMC
• CME presentations, conferences
• International Wellness Conference

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Publications

• CAM Education Series
• Family Medicine Clinics of North America
  Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Back Pain
  
• Assoc. Editor Integrative Medicine Textbook
• Review Article AFP - Gingko

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Inter-Institutional Collaborations

• University of North Carolina
• Boston Childrens
• University of Arizona
• R-25 applicants
• University of TX San Antonio
• STFM Fellow, University of Connecticut

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Integrative Healthcare Complementary and
Alternative Therapies for the Whole Person

• By Victor S. Sierpina, MD
• FA Davis Philadelphia, 2001
• www.BN.com
• www.amazon.com

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