Report on 6th ICCMR (International Congress on Complementary Medicine Research) 2011 in Chengdu / 全日本鍼灸学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

The 6th International Congress on Complementary Medicine Research (ICCMR) was held at the Sofitel Wanda Hotel in Chengdu, China on May 7-9, 2011. A pre-conference workshop was held on the 6th at Sichuan University. This conference was organized by the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research (ISCMR). There were 400 participants at the conference, which offered 4 workshops, 12 plenary sessions, 134 oral presentations, and 287 posters. Half of total presentations were from China and also many were from South Korea. The methodology of Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) and Systematic Review (SR) were discussed for building Evidence-Based Medicine for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and many researches with RCT and SR were at the presentation. I attended this conference by reguest from the International Department of The Japan Society of Acupuncture and Moxibustion.