Educational Resources

Enhancing health and well-being

Our goal is to create future integrative medicine leaders to improve health and well-being for all people through care, research, and education.

We are committed to providing the highest quality integrative medicine education and training to current and future healthcare practitioners, researchers, and educators. We specialize in teaching, curriculum development, mentoring, leadership, and educational research.

We believe that improving health and well-being for both patients and practitioners requires knowledge of the most current research and evidence-based practices; skill in connecting with people to provide relationship-centered care; and a commitment to self-care.

We recognize that wellness and illness are shaped by the contexts of people’s lives. We must also be aware of and respond to the social, behavioral, and economic factors that influence health and health care.

Explore Our Education Program

Integrative Medicine Curriculum

Integrative medicine courses taught by the Osher Center include required and elective courses available to students in all UCSF schools, as well as visiting students.

Research Fellowship

Our pre- and postdoctoral fellowship program trains scientists, physicians, and other qualified health professionals to become innovative, independent investigators and scholars in integrative medicine research.

Clinical Fellowship

Our one-year clinical fellowship emphasizes practical clinical training and prepares physicians for academic and clinical careers in integrative medicine, including eligibility to take the exam for board certification in integrative medicine.

Attend Grand Rounds

Our monthly Integrative Medicine Grand Rounds series is open to all UCSF faculty and staff, as wells as the broader health professional community. CME/CEU credit is available.

I'm inspired to use my hands as new tools in the healing process. I love the warmth I feel in my hands after I give a massage. This class has given me new tools to provide deep healing.

First-year medical student, Massage and Meditation course

In giving us the tool of ethnographic assessment of healing modalities, [the instructor] gave us a framework with which to approach each new practitioner and their art/science.

Fourth-year medical student, Culture and Integrative Medicine course

The TRIM fellowship gave me the support to develop independent research interests that strengthened what I learned in graduate school and set me on the path to becoming an independent investigator.

Helen Y. Weng, PhD, Core Research Faculty, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine