October 2006

NCCAM announces career development award

The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) announced The Bernard Osher Foundation/NCCAM CAM Practitioner Research Career Development Award.

This award is designed to diminish the barriers that prevent complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) clinicians from exploring a career in research and promote the science of complementary and alternative medicine through research training and mentorship. The award is for individual CAM practitioners with clinical CAM doctorates who have had limited opportunities for research training, but who have a strong desire to pursue a career in CAM research.

Awardees will receive up to five years of intensive, supervised career development research training in the biomedical, behavioral, or clinical sciences related to CAM. Applicants should hold a health professional doctoral degree from a CAM institution, such as Doctor of Chiropractic (DC), Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine (ND), or Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM), as well as Doctors of Osteopathy (DO) from medical institutions that teach manual manipulation as part of the core curriculum.

Interested parties should visit www.nccam.nih.gov/training for more information about the award.

Source: National Institutes of Health, www.nih.gov

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