UTMB SOM Integrative Health Courses
FAMU-4019 Complementary and Integrative Medicine Elective
| Instructors: |
| Juliet McKee, M.D., Victor S. Sierpina, M.D.
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| Duration: | | 4 weeks (residents may take for 2 weeks)
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Prerequisites:
| | None |
Required text:
| | Integrative Health Care: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for the Whole Person, Sierpina, VS
- Chapters 1 - 5 Week 1
- Chapters 9 - 16 Weeks 2-3
Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
Both texts are available at the Moody Medical Library and can also be checked out from the CIM elective coordinator. Read required text and other resource materials, including Internet sources. |
Time offered:
| | Periods 1-10
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Maximum enrollment:
| | 8 students or residents.
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Who would benefit from the course:
| | Any medical student, resident, or allied health science or nursing student who has an interest in this area. Also any professional who plans to treat patients who are using alternative therapies on their own or in conjunction with a health care provider's recommendations. |
Report to:
| | Primary Care Pavilion, 2.250
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| Time: | | As arranged
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| Contact: | | 409-772-3126 |
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FAMU-4053 Complementary and Integrative Medicine Ambulatory Community Selective
| Course Number: | | FAMU-4053 |
| Course Name: | | Complementary and Integrative Medicine Ambulatory Community Selective |
| Faculty: | | Victor S. Sierpina, M.D. |
| | | This ACS provides students an in-depth experience with a practicing integrative family physician. Students will participate in clinical, experimental, and scholarly learning in Complementary and Integrative Medicine fields. Sites for this selective are in Houston and Austin. |
| Contact: | | 409-772-3126 |
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PEDU-4101 The Art of Healing - BSHS
| Course Number: | | PEDU-4101 |
| Course Name: | | The Art of Healing |
| Time Offered: | | Periods 5,6, 10 |
| Faculty: | | Cara Geary, M.D. & Juliet McKee, M.D. |
| | | All medical students can benefit from better understanding the personal challenges of being a physician and learning to uncover and maintain their humanity and compassion in the midst of a training system that demands performance. Faculty and students have reported that the course if transformative as well as informative. |
| Contact: | | 409-772-5286 |
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PEDU-4102 The Art of Healing
| Course Number: | | PEDU-4102 |
| Course Name: | | The Art of Healing |
| Time Offered: | | Period 10 |
| Faculty: | | Cara Geary, M.D. & Juliet McKee, M.D. |
| | | Becoming a healer requires more of us than just the acquisition of technical knowledge and skills. The Art of Healing course will help students understand that medicine is a work of the heart and the soul as well as the intellect. The Art Healing course takes an interactive, contemplative and didactic approach to enabling students to perceive the personal and universal meaning in their experience of medicine. |
| Contact: | | 409-772-5286 |
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PEDU 4056 Energy Medicine
| Course Number: | | PEDU-4056 |
| Course Name: | | Energy Medicine |
| Time Offered: | | Period 1-10 & 13 |
| Faculty: | | Cara Geary, M.D. |
| | | Attain a global understanding of the range of complementary and alternative medicine fields with a focus on how other traditions of medicine view sickness, health and being a healer. Understand the field of Energy Medicine in depth including theories on mechanisms of action, available modalities and the clinical research on the therapeutic effectiveness of these modalities. |
| Contact: | | 409-772-5286 |
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