November 2007

Journal focuses on NCCAM grant program

Readers of Academic Medicine learned more about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as they perused the journal’s October issue.

Included in the journal were published results of 15 grants funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), a part of the National Institutes of Health. NCCAM funded the grants for CAM health-education curricula in established medical, dental, nursing, and allied health professional schools, residency training programs, and continuing education programs.

In the journal, grantees of the education program discussed the tools used, challenges faced, and lessons learned in the development of CAM curricula for conventional healthcare professionals.

The NCCAM-funded research papers that appear in the journal include:

• “Preface: Insights from Educational Initiatives in Complementary and Alternative Medicine”;

• “The CAM Educations Program of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: An Overview”;

• “Rationales for CAM Education in Health Professions Training Programs”;

• “What Should Students Learn about Complementary and Alternative Medicine?”;

• “Integrating Complementary and Alternative Medicine Instruction into Health Professions Education: Organizational and Instructional Strategies”;

• “Barriers, Strategies, and Lessons Learned from Complementary and Alternative Medicine Curricular Initiatives”;

• “Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine Curricular Elements to Foster Medical Student Self-Awareness”;

• “Evaluation CAM Education in Health Professions Programs”; and

• “Collaborations between Allopathic and Complementary and Alternative Medicine Health Professionals: Four Initiatives.”

Source: National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, http://nccam.nih.gov

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