Education
The UMIM Education program provides a broad selection of interdisciplinary courses, faculty development opportunities and medical education curricula to support the study of integrative medicine.
Mission
- To educate students, faculty, health professionals and the public about integrative healthcare practice and its context of relationship-centered care.
- To collaborate with community practitioners and academic faculty in the development of innovative educational programs.
- To nationally distribute curriculum materials and publish evaluation results related to our educational activities.
Program Descriptions
UMIM oversees a variety of educational initiatives at the University of Michigan including:
Medical School Curriculum. Originally supported by a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), 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 Medical School curriculum.
Integrative Medicine Fellowship (IMF). IM fellows receive training in both integrative and family medicine, learning about and experiencing various modalities within CAM, interacting with integrative physicians and alternative providers, focusing on self-care, and developing an integrative approach to patient care for use in practice. The program intersects with the traditional family medicine residency, extending over a 3 ½ year time period.
Faculty Scholars Program. This year-long, multi-disciplinary program provides selected faculty from the Medical School, colleges of Pharmacy and LS&A, and schools of Business, Dentistry, Social Work, Nursing and Public Health with an opportunity to explore the theoretical principles, clinical practices and evidence related to complementary alternative and integrative therapies.
Continuing Education. UMIM offers Continuing Medical Education (CME) to medical students and physicians for learning about evidence-based Complementary, Alternative and Integrative Medicine (CAIM) through the Office of Continuing Medical Education at the Towsley Center. For a current list of available CME, visit their events page.
