Complementary medicine and medical education

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7279.121

BMJ 2001;322:121-122 ( 20 January )

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Complementary medicine and medical education

Teaching complementary medicine offers a way of making teaching more holistic

Education and debate p 154

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Complementary and alternative medicine is no longer an obscure issue in medicine. Our patients are using alternative therapiesin addition to conventional care ¹ ² and sometimes do notshare this information with us. But even if they did would weknow how best to advise them about safety issues or about theeffectiveness of a particular therapy for their problem? Surveysindicate that doctors and medical students are increasingly interestedin complementary and alternative therapy,^3-5 yet lack of knowledgeis one of the greatest barriers to its appropriate use. Althoughmany medical schools and training programmes now include teachingon complementary and alternative therapies, the approaches arevariable and oftensuperficial.

In this issue Owen et al ask provocative questions about our attitudes and behaviour towards complementary and alternativetherapy (p 154),⁶ and point out that few of us encounteredsuch therapy as medical students or during later training. Nevertheless,. . . [Full text of this article]

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