Education

Creating outstanding integrative health leaders through transformative education and training

The Osher Center for Integrative Health is committed to producing outstanding integrative health leaders through transformative education and training.

We specialize in teaching, curriculum design, mentoring, faculty development, and educational research. Our goal is to provide the highest quality integrative medicine education to current and future healthcare practitioners, researchers, and educators.

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 also recognize that wellness and illness are shaped by the contexts of people’s lives. Our Education Program emphasizes awareness of and responses to the social, behavioral, and economic factors that influence health and health care.

UCSF does not use race, gender, sex, or other protected categories or proxies for protected categories in the selection process.

Explore Our Education Program

Integrative Health and Applied Research (IHEAR) Summer Training Program

An eight-week interprofessional program for predoctoral health professions and research science students.

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Training in Research in Integrative Medicine (TRIM) Program

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.

Integrative Medicine Scholars and instructors sitting around a table in discussion

Osher Collaborative Faculty Fellowship

Our yearlong fellowship program offers specialized training for Osher Collaborative faculty to develop highly skilled leaders and scholars in integrative health throughout the Osher Collaborative.

Integrative Ayurvedic Medicine Training for Healthcare Professionals

This online program focuses on training clinicians in practical skills to seamlessly integrate Ayurvedic knowledge into their practice.

Osher Center for Integrative Health Grand Rounds

Our monthly speaker series focuses on current topics in integrative medicine and health practice and provides CME/CEU credits.

Osher WISE

Osher WISE (Well-being and Integrative Science for Everyone) is a public education program that offers courses on current and compelling integrative health topics.

Integrative Medicine Curriculum for Health Professions Students

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

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Education Stories

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 a new way to relieve tension and tools to provide deep healing.

First-year medical student, Massage and Meditation course

In giving us the tool of ethnographic assessment of healing modalities, Dr. Adler gave us a framework with which to approach each new practitioner and their art/science. It greatly enhanced my experience of the various healing methods.

Fourth-year medical student, Culture and Integrative Medicine course

The research 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. I also developed my interest in working with minority populations and gained skills in conducting community-engaged research and adapting neuroscientific methods to diverse populations.

Helen Y. Weng, PhD, Affiliated Research Faculty, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health