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Clinical practice of integrative medicine in the United States and its development in primary care / 中国中西医结合杂志
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine ; (12): 394-400, 2015.
Article in Chinese | WPRIM | ID: wpr-297418
ABSTRACT
The field of integrative medicine (IM) has grown tremendously in the United States over last two decades, in terms of clinical practice, research, and education. Its growing popularity among patients has led to increased need for physicians with appropriate counseling skills and a knowledge base of the efficacy and safety of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. Family medicine is the first specialty as a whole to embrace IM, which encounters similar ailing conditions and emphasizes similar core values-person centered, evidence based, proactive, and continuous in nature. As integrative family medicine emerges, family medicine educators have developed suggested curriculum guidelines and approved measurable competencies to implement the best of evidence-based CAM and principles of IM. There are currently over 40 family medicine residencies that officially advertise CAM/IM in their programs. Meanwhile, IM centers have also been developing their own primary care programs based on their unique characteristics. This physician-led IM workforce is similar to that of China's IM in the early 1960s. As the Chinese government embarks on repeating its efforts to educate more Western medicine trained physicians in Chinese medicine in primary care training programs, the process and insights related to implementation of their practice in the United States would provide useful food for thought.
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Full text: Available Index: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Physicians / Primary Health Care / United States / Complementary Therapies / China / Curriculum / Education / Education, Medical / Integrative Medicine / Internship and Residency Type of study: Practice guideline Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: North America / Asia Language: Chinese Journal: Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine Year: 2015 Type: Article

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Full text: Available Index: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Physicians / Primary Health Care / United States / Complementary Therapies / China / Curriculum / Education / Education, Medical / Integrative Medicine / Internship and Residency Type of study: Practice guideline Limits: Humans Country/Region as subject: North America / Asia Language: Chinese Journal: Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine Year: 2015 Type: Article