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June 15, 2005
Medical Schools Embrace Alternative Therapies
The University of Pennsylvania medical school is the latest traditional medical school to embrace alternative medicine. Penn is starting a program in August, working with Tai Sophia Institute, an alternative medicine school in Maryland that will teach medical students about herbal therapies, meditation and other approaches.
Universities nationwide, in response to the burgeoning numbers, are increasingly focusing on complementary medicine (used along with conventional treatment) and alternative medicine (used instead of conventional treatment). Some are creating their own programs and others are working with alternative medicine practitioners, said Aviad Haramati, a professor at Georgetown University's medical school.
"More and more there's a willingness by conventional schools to recognize the CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) schools as having this expertise," Haramati said. "And there's a recognition by the CAM disciplines that linking with conventional academic centers to foster research is a good thing."
Georgetown students work with a massage therapy school, for example, and Tufts University students work with an acupuncture school, he said.
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Posted by linda at June 15, 2005 9:27 PM
