Botanical medicine program
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The University of Arizona Program in Integrative Medicine and the Beth Israel/Albert Einstein Department of Family Medicine announce Nov. 3 an online Botanical Medicine course for primary care residency programs. The multi-site project is "designed to test the feasibility and educational impact of incorporating a web-based teaching module on botanical medicine into residency training," the release says. Fourteen residency programs have already signed up for the free program, including Tufts, Boston University and the University of Michigan Department of Family Medicine, according to the release. The program includes reviews of research articles, case histories and clinical challenges in botanical medicine. NIH's Office of Dietary Supplements announced in October it wanted to determine the quantity and quality of instruction offered to graduate and health-professional students on dietary supplements (1"The Tan Sheet" Oct. 9, 2006, In Brief)...
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