Residency    

    Electives
 - Alternative & Integrative Elective

CAM Residency Guidelines

 - Complementary and Integrative Medicine Curriculum (Word Document)

Competencies For Family Medicine Residents
 - Family Medicine Competencies (Word Document)

Internal Medicine Residents
 - Internal Medicine Competencies (Word Document)

Pediatric Residents
 - Pediatric Competencies
 - Integrative Approaches to Pediatric Medicine
 - Complementary Alternative Medicine in Pediatrics - Objectives: CAM 101 (Word Document)
 - HolisticKids.org Overview of Therapies (Word Document)

Integrative Medicine Workshop
 Topics Include:
 - 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
 - Overall Format
 - High Impact Integrative Pediatrics
 - Reliable Resources for Complementary and Integrative Medicine
 - Pediatric
 - Common Herbal Medicines
 - Upper Respiratory Medicines
 - Acupuncture
 - Chiropractic
 - Massage Therapy

CAM Decision Tree

Lectures / Grand Rounds
 - Stress Survival Strategies for Health Professionals and Patients (PowerPoint Presentation)
 - Stress Survival Strategies for Health Professionals and Patients (Word Document)
 - Methods of Assessing Nutrition and Body Composition
 - Superfoods (PowerPoint Presentation)

Ambulatory Clinic Report

  This teaching format is based on presentations of out patient ambulatory clinic cases. Presentations are administered by the residents followed with an interactive dialogue format with faculty experts and Family Medicine faculty and practitioners. This format is augmented by adding additional dimension of CIM to each case or disease entity being discussed.

In this disease-oriented approach, we solicit the Core CAM Curriculum COmmittee to submit evidence-based integrative medicine treatments when appropriate for each condition.

Link to Residency Website Ambulatory Clinic Report for full details

Resident CAM Survey
 - 2004 Survey  (Word Document)

Web Cases
 - Upper Respiratory Infection
 - Breast Cancer
 - Low Back Pain

Reading List
 - Integrative Medicine by Dr. Dave Rakel
 - Integrative Health Care by Dr. Victor Sierpina

Integrative Medicine  Integrative Health Care

Online Databases
 - Health Notes (UTMB Users Only)
 - NLM
 - Scientific Basis of Holistic Medicine

Spirituality
 - What a Family Physician Needs to Know Before Interpreting Studies on Religion and Health (PowerPoint Presentation)
 - Spirituality Course
 - Spirituality and Clinical Care Revised (PowerPoint Presentation)

Clinical Decision Making/Evidence Based Medicine

 - EBM Information

Physician's Curriculum in Clinical Nutrition











 
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