Other Education Resources
Integrative Medicine Workshop
http://eclass.utmb.edu/public/cam/index.html
While designed for residency level learners, the curriculum is also appropriate for practicing clinicians and motivated medical students. Each session presents a patient case, a set of readings, and a pre-test to be completed prior to a problem-based group learning module on the topic of choice. Additional learning activities, including discussion sessions and board-type test questions, also presented.
Includes such topics as : obesity, Insulin Resistance Syndrome: Syndrome X, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, menopause/perimenopause and HRT, lower back pain, fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, depression.
Roundtable Lecture-Discussion Series
Decision Tree
Given patients' demands and utilization of CAM therapies, and despite the lack of evidence, there is an increasing need to address how CAM therapies can be integrated into conventional medical systems. The suggested decision tree could be a first step that should respond to patient's expectations and needs, but at the same time maintain accepted standards of medical and scientific principles of practice. Also see Frenkel MA, Borkan JM. An approach for integrating complementary-alternative medicine into primary care. Fam Pract. 2003 Jun;20(3):324-32. Available online from PubMed.
