Integrative Medicine Fellowship
Formal Learning Activities
Participants engage in a wide range of didactic and experiential learning activities during the course of the program. Formal interchanges with the program director occur on a monthly basis. Modality seminars, elective activities and special topic discussions also take place regularly.
Formal Meetings with the program director touch upon a variety of topics but typically address issues related to:
- Defining Problems, Asking Questions, Making Change
- Challenges of Integrative Medicine
- Fundamentals of Integrative Medicine
- Healing Modalities
- Integrating Healthcare: Planning, Collaborating, Implementing
- Leadership Competencies
- Mentors, Mentoring, Advising
- Physician Self-Care
- Overview of Healthcare Organizations
- Philosophies of Healing and Therapeutic Systems
- Socioeconomics of Integrative Medicine, Cost-Effective Practice, Advocacy
- Therapeutic Relationships
- Transformational Leadership Development
Elective topics extend over the entire program. Featured experiential learning components are selected to align with each participant’s special interest area. Examples include:
- Acupuncture
- Aroma therapy
- Health System Management
- Herbal Therapies
- Holistic Nutrition
- Integrative Pharmacy
- Manipulative Therapies
- Mind-Body Medicine
Each month, fellows explore didactic material designed to complement the clinical training experience with each of our core faculty. The topics covered are taken from both alternative and biologically-based systems.
Alternative Systems
| Foundations of Healthy Living
Body-Based Therapies Holistic Practice Models |
Therapeutic Relationships
Nutrition Research |
Alternative Whole Systems
Herbs/Supplements Education |
Mind-Body Medicine
Energy Medicine Transformational Leadership |
Biologically-Based Systems
| Respiratory
(Asthma, URI)
Neurology (Headache) Gynecology/Urology |
Allergy
Chronic Pain Gastrointestinal |
Cancer
Endocrine Dental Health |
Cardiovascular
Mental Health (Anxiety, Depression) Palliative Care |
Fellows spend sixty percent of their time devoted to the practice of integrative medicine at the University of Michigan Integrative Family Medicine Clinic and, in so doing, learn to apply a broad range of alternative therapies to patient care. In the fall, fellows participate in intensive review and sit for the certifying exam given by the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine.
