Training the Next Generation

Our education program, which teaches medical students, health professionals, and the public about integrative medicine practices, has expanded tremendously over the past 10 years. UCSF now offers the following courses in integrative medicine:

Complementary Paths of Healing
Culture & Integrative Medicine
Clinician as Ethnographer
Healer’s Art
Herbs & Dietary Supplements
Massage & Meditation
Health and Society Pathway
Roles & relationships between neurosurgeons & family caregivers
Spirituality & Medicine
Training the Mind

Just ten years ago, integrative medicine content was not required at medical schools. Today 25 hours are included in the required curriculum at UCSF. Since 2003, we have begun offering demonstrations of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, exercises on communicating with patients about integrative medicine, and a learning module in which students answer patient questions about integrative medicine. Additionally, we have trained students in Integrative Medicine with the following 17 specialties:

Specialities

Anesthesiology
Dentistry
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Family Medicine
Internal Medicine
Neurosurgery
Nursing&
ObGyn
Ophthalmology
Pediatrics
Pharmacy
Physical Therapy
Psychiatry
Radiology
Surgery
Urology

. . . and they are now practicing across the country