Medical School Curriculum
Supported by a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), University of Michigan Integrative Medicine (UMIM) piloted its first Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) courses for medical students during the Fall Term of 2000. A unique aspect of the CAM course sequence is that it is longitudinal, extending across the entire four-year U-M Medical School curriculum.
To date, implementation of the curriculum has involved the participation of approximately 600 undergraduate medical students and 200 physicians/practitioners. Instruction has touched upon the following five CAM domains as identified by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM):
- Alternative medical systems
- Mind-body interventions
- Biologically based therapies
- Manipulative and body-based methods
- Energy therapies
The Curriculum is divided into two parts:
- Pre-Clinical Years
- M1 and M2 Selectives
- M3 and M4 Selectives
- Clinical Years
- Resident Education Modules
- Acupuncture
- Mind-Body Medicine
- Obesity
- Herbs
- Resident Education Modules
