The need for higher education in the sociology of traditional and non-conventional medicine in Italy: towards a person-centered medicine

Sarsina, Paolo Roberti di; Bordogna, Mara Tognetti

doi:10.1007/s13167-011-0102-1

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“…The increase may also be consistent with past prospectuses-training policy on which universities feel they cannot backtrack [15]. Lastly, it may be a practical response to overtures by regional policy, since we have noted the direct link between regions that are sensitive to the issue and universities in those areas presenting a 'virtuous' response, especially where training is sponsored by firms producing on behalf of TM/NCM and where doctors of TM/NCM have formed a Roll within their professional Council [16].…”

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confidence: 81%

Education in Traditional and Non Conventional Medicine: A Growing Trend in Italian Schools of Medicine

Bordogna

Gentiluomo²,

Sarsina³

2013

Altern Integ Med

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Traditional and Non-Conventional Medicines (TM/NCM) are slowly gaining ground in Italy despite the opposition of biomedicine which dominates the health and education system. The latest research indicates that: more than 50% of general practitioners recommend homeopathic medicines to their patients; 14.5% of the Italian population has recourse to Non Conventional Medicines; 16.2% of the sample has recourse to homeopathic medicines. Given this trend, this first-ever survey/census investigates the actual role of the Italian University in promoting an academic education in Traditional and Non-Conventional Medicines. Although in 2004 and in 2011 the Italian Permanent Conference of the Presidents of MD Schools of Medicine assumed an official position of stigmatisation of TM/NCM, many Italian Schools of Medicine have activated various types of courses. The authors analyse the TM/NCM training schemes offered on the websites of private and public Italian Schools of Medicine in the academic year 2011-2012. An ad-hoc questionnaire was likewise mailed to all the Italian Schools of Medicine, consisting of eight questions concerning the quality and quantity of both undergraduate and postgraduate education programmes in Traditional and Non-Conventional Medicine (Elective Courses (undergraduate), High Education Courses (post-graduate), eventual Specializations, Masters Courses, Doctorates and other kinds, such as CME, etc.). The authors have also reconstructed a geographical map of the different types education programme in Traditional and Non-Conventional Medicine, highlighting the more virtuous Italian University Centres and Regions in this connection.

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Section: Future Outlooksupporting

confidence: 81%

Education in Traditional and Non Conventional Medicine: A Growing Trend in Italian Schools of Medicine

Bordogna

Gentiluomo²,

Sarsina³

2013

Altern Integ Med

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“…During their undergraduate and postgraduate education, health-care professionals need to be given the tools to understand the social changes that are taking place, including in the health-care system, and to address them with adequate sanitary responses and coherent political proposals [27]. People with decision-making power at all levels of the welfare system, of health-care organisations and of organisations in the public sector, free market or tertiary sector that provide services aimed at improving wellbeing are being called upon to give new solutions regarding health and health care.…”

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confidence: 99%

Traditional, complementary and alternative medical systems and their contribution to personalisation, prediction and prevention in medicine—person-centred medicine

Sarsina

Alivia²,

Guadagni³

2012

EPMA Journal

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Traditional, complementary and alternative medical (TCAM) systems contribute to the foundation of person-centred medicine (PCM), an epistemological orientation for medical science which places the person as a physical, psychological and spiritual entity at the centre of health care and of the therapeutic process. PCM wishes to broaden the bio-molecular reductionistic approach of medical science towards an integration that allows people, doctors, nurses, health-care professionals and patients to become the real protagonists of the health-care scene. The doctor or caregiver needs to act out of empathy to meet the unique value of each human being, which unfolds over the course of a lifetime from conception to natural death. Knowledge of the human being should not be instrumental to economic or political interests, ideology, theories or religious dogma. Research needs to be broadened with methodological tools to investigate person-centred medical interventions. Salutogenesis is a fundamental principle of PCM, promoting health and preventing illness by strengthening the individual's self-healing abilities. TCAM systems also give tools to predict the insurgence of illness and treat it before the appearance of overt organic disease. A task of PCM is to educate people to take better care of their physical, psychological and spiritual health. Health-care education needs to be broadened to give doctors and health-care workers of the future the tools to act in innovative and highly differentiated ways, always guided by deep respect for individual autonomy, personal culture, religion and beliefs.

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“…In rich and poor countries alike, it is important that the interaction between traditional knowledge and conventional medicine be taught at university so that students can learn how health practices have evolved in our various countries [ 30 , 31 ]. This will also protect people from unethical or misguided practices, and thus extend the good standards achieved by biomedicine.…”

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Person-centred healthcare and medicine paradigm: it’s time to clarify

Sarsina

Tassinari²

2015

EPMA Journal

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The person-centred healthcare and medicine paradigm is in need of a strong theoretical framework not only to explain what it is but to prevent dangerous confusions of terminology or reductive oversimplification of its true scope: for example, it may be integrated into biomedicine, whereas person-centred medicine and Traditional Systems and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM) actually stand in the position of interacting with the conventional health system. Emphasis on person-centred care is also in line with World Health Organization (WHO) policy and the International Declarations of Beijing and Alma Ata. Interaction of TCAM and person-centred approach to all forms of medicine will ensure variety of therapy in tackling the intrinsically complex and multifaceted issue of health and healing. It will also prevent inestimable traditional knowledge from being lost.

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The need for higher education in the sociology of traditional and non-conventional medicine in Italy: towards a person-centered medicine

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Education in Traditional and Non Conventional Medicine: A Growing Trend in Italian Schools of Medicine

Education in Traditional and Non Conventional Medicine: A Growing Trend in Italian Schools of Medicine

Traditional, complementary and alternative medical systems and their contribution to personalisation, prediction and prevention in medicine—person-centred medicine

Person-centred healthcare and medicine paradigm: it’s time to clarify

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