T here is a steadily grozving interest in providing education to physicians about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) not only during their time in medical school, hut also as part of their continuing education in the practice of medicine. This listing aims to provide educators, medical students, physicians, and surgeons with information about the increasing number of courses and programs about therapies and modalities of healing that are not conventionally taught in the 125 American Association of Medical Colleges {A AMO-accr edited M.D. programs. Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.), Doctor of Chiropractic (D-C), and Naturopathic Doctor (N.D.) programs are not included in this listing because CAM components are integrated throughout their curricula. Our goal is to track the evolution of courses and to aid the effort toward an integrated cohesive national curriculum in all medical schools.
GROUPS WITH CURRICULUM INITIATIVES
The validity of herbometallic bhasmas described in Ayurveda is nowhere acknowledged by biomedical science. To unravel the knowledge of bhasmas, an algorithm integrating ayurveda- and science-based experiments needs to connect the basic science of rasa shastra, the study of herbometallic medicines in ayurveda, to clinical data.
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