NIH's
nccam.nih.gov
White
House
Commission on CAM Policy
http://www.whccamp.hhs.gov/finalreport.html
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center Guide to
CAM
Therapies
http://www.cancer.duke.edu/pated/CAM_InfoSheets.asp
Student
ICAM Resources:
UNC
Program on Integrative Medicine
http://pim.med.unc.edu/
American
Medical Student Association's Humanistic Medicine Action Committee
www.amsa.org/humed
AMSA's
NIH-funded
EDCAM Initiative
On-line courses on various
aspects of
Complementary and Alternative Medicine www.amsa.org/humed/cam/resources.cfm
Select
a topic below for links to courses that may be feasible for the full
time resident/student to take:
Thanks to the
Holistic and Integrative Medicine Group at UC-San Diego for collecting
these links!
---Acupuncture ---
---Ayurveda---
---Biofeedback---
---Botanical Medicine---
---Chinese Herbalism---
---Homeopathy---
---Hypnosis---
---Mindfulness Meditation---
---Qigong---
---Shamanism---
---Acupuncture and Chinese Herbalism---
American
Acadmeny of Medical Acupuncture
www.medicalacupuncture.org
These are the folks that coordinate the 300-hr acupuncture course
for physicians, and through their website you can find MDs and DOs who
passed the course and use acupuncture in practice.
American
Association of Oriental Medicine
www.aaom.org
National
Certification Commision on Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
www.nccaom.org
Acupuncture
and Oriental Medicine Alliance
www.healthy.net/asp/Associations/assocsearch.asp?
AssocID=1
Chinese
Medicine and Acupuncture Association of Canada
www.cmaac.ca
The
Ayurvedic Institute (Albuquerque)
www.ayurveda.com
Ayurveda
Holistic Center
ayurvedahc.com/community/Family/VaidaFind.htm
Ayurveda
Institute of America (Fremont, CA; San Fran; Houston)
www.ayurvedainstitute.com
AYU
Clinic (Seattle)
www.ayurvedaonline.com/ayuclinic.html
California
College of Ayurveda
www.ayurvedacollege.com/services/links.htm
Wise
Earth School of Ayurveda
www.wisearth.org/programs/practitionerlist.html
Association
for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
www.aapb.org
The
Biofeedback Network
www.biofeedback.net
American
Herbalists Guild
www.americanherbalistsguild.com
HerbNET
www.herbnet.com/practitioners_p1.htm
American
Chiropractic Association
www.amerchiro.org
International
Chiropractors Association
www.chiropractic.org
American
Institute of Homeopathy
www.homeopathyusa.org
National
Center for Homeopathy
www.homeopathic.org
National
United Professional Association of Trained Homeopaths
www.nupath.org
(Canada)
North
American Society of Homeopaths
www.homeopathy.org
American
Society of Clinical Hypnosis
www.asch.net
American
Massage Therapy Association
www.amtamassage.org
Mind/Body
Medical Institute and affiliated programs
www.mbmi.org/pages/tfhp_mbmia4.asp
MBSR
Programs recognized by the Center for Mindfulness at UMass
www.umassmed.edu/cfm/mbsr
Transcendental
Meditation Program Centers
www.maharishi.org/locations/locations.html
The
American Association of Naturopathic Physicians
www.naturopathic.org
Canadian
Naturopathic Association
www.naturopathicassoc.ca
---Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine---
American
Osteopathic Assocation
(search for "Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine" under Primary
Specialty)
directory.aoa-net.org/cfm/PublicSearch.cfm
The
Cranial Academy
www.cranialacademy.com
National
Qigong Association
www.nqa.org/members/members.html
---Shiatsu and other Asian Bodywork---
American
Organization of Bodywork Therapies of Asia
www.aobta.org
Nurse
Healers-Professional Associations International, Inc.
www.therapeutic-touch.org
Courses that may be feasible for the full-time Resident/Student to take:
Medical
Acupuncture for Physicians
(4 days in Santa Monica, CA; then 300 hours of home video, then 10 days
in AZ or FL)
www.hmieducation.com
National
Acupuncture Detoxification Association
(70 hours, NY or OR)
www.acudetox.com/NADA/aboutus/fact-sht.htm
Ayurveda
Holistic Center distance-learning course
www.ayurvedahc.com/aycertif.htm
The
Ayurvedic Insitute correspondence course
www.ayurveda.com/academic-catalog.htm#CC
Maharishi
College of Vedic Medicine, NM
(2-week course, Masters course)
www.mcvmnm.org
National
Institute of Ayurvedic Medicine correspondence course
niam.com
Florida
Vedic College
(correspondence course + 2 week-long intensives)
www.floridavediccollege.edu
California
College of Ayurveda
(3-day weekend each month x 1.5 yrs)
www.ayurvedacollege.com
Wise
Earth School of Ayurveda
(week-long courses x 3, North Carolina)
www.wisearth.org/info
AYU
Academy
(3-day weekend each month x 1 yr, Seattle)
www.ayurvedaonline.com/ayuacademy.html
International
Academy of Ayurved
(one month, India)
www.ayurved-int.com
Rishikesh
College of Ayurveda
(3 weeks, India)
www.ayurishi.com
AAPB
Homestudy Course
www.aapb.org/public/articles/index.cfm?Cat=10
Dominion
Herbal College home-study course
www.dominionherbal.com/The_Schools/Chdp/ch.html
American
Botanical Council
(one-month internship, ethnobotanical tour)
www.herbalgram.org/browse.php?
content_name=ed_resources
The
California School of Herbal Studies
(6-weekend courses and weekend workshops in Forestville, CA near San
Francisco)
www.cshs.com
Sierra
Institute of Herbal Studies
(8-weekend course in central CA)
www.lodelink.com/sierrain
Rocky
Mountain Center for Botanical Studies distance learning course
www.herbschool.com
Herbal
Therapeutics School of Botanical Medicine
(Tuesday evenings for 2 years in Washington, NJ)
www.herbnet.com/herbal_therapeutics.htm
Academy
of Classical Oriental Sciences
(distant learning partial course)
www.acos.org
Yo-San
University School of TCM
(distance learning course in TCM nutrition)
www.yosan.edu/index.php?p=40,52
British
Institute of Homeopathy distance learning course
www.britinsthom.com
Caduceus
Institute of Classical Homeopathy distance learning course
www.homeopathyhome.com/caduceus
Colorado
Institute for Classical Homeopathy long-distance course
www.homeopathyschool.org/long_distance.html
School
of Homeopathy North American Flexible Learning Program
www.homeopathyschool.com/naflp.html
Homeopathic
College of Canada
(can be taken via internet)
www.homeopathy.edu
American
Society of Clinical Hypnosis
(40 hours of workshop, 20 hours of individualized consultation)
www.asch.net/regionalworkshops.htm
Brian
Weiss, MD
(5-day intensive workshops on hypnotic regression)
www.brianweiss.com
Mind/Body
Medical Institute
(3 to 5-day courses near Boston, MA)
www.mbmi.org/pages/tfhp.asp
Center
for Mindfulness at UMass
(week-long course, 10-week internship)
www.umassmed.edu/cfm/education
Healing
Tao Institute
(Austin, TX)
www.healingtaoinstitute.com
The
International Institute of Medical Qigong-USA
(weekend classes available)
www.qigongmedicine.org
The
International Institute of Medical Qigong-Canada
(weekly classes in Toronto for 200+ hours, then clinical internship)
www.medicalqigongcanada.org
Foundation
for Shamanic Studies
(2-day basic workshop, 5-day intensive training, multiple locations)
www.shamanism.org/workshops
The
Four Winds Society
(4 week-long sessions in NY, CA, or UT over two years; and three
elective classes/expeditions)
www.thefourwinds.com