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Changing Academic Medicine: Strategies Used by Academic Leaders of Integrative Medicine—A Qualitative Study
In Western countries, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is more and more provided by practitioners and family doctors. To base this reality of health care provision on an evidence-base, academic medicine needs to be included in the development. In the study we aimed to gain information on...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23093984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/652546 |
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description | In Western countries, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is more and more provided by practitioners and family doctors. To base this reality of health care provision on an evidence-base, academic medicine needs to be included in the development. In the study we aimed to gain information on a structured approach to include CAM in academic health centers. We conducted a semistructured interview study with leading experts of integrative medicine to analyze strategies of existing academic institutions of integrative medicine. The study sample consisted of a purposive sample of ten leaders that have successfully integrated CAM into medical schools in the USA, Great Britain, and Germany and the Director of the National Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Analysis was based on content analysis. The prerequisite to foster change in academic medicine was a strong educational and professional background in academic medicine and research methodologies. With such a skill set, the interviewees identified a series of strategies to align themselves with colleagues from conventional medicine, such as creating common goals, networking, and establishing well-functioning research teams. In addition, there must be a vision of what should be needed to be at the center of all efforts in order to implement successful change. |
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spelling | pubmed-34753642012-10-23 Changing Academic Medicine: Strategies Used by Academic Leaders of Integrative Medicine—A Qualitative Study Witt, Claudia M. Holmberg, Christine Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Research Article In Western countries, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is more and more provided by practitioners and family doctors. To base this reality of health care provision on an evidence-base, academic medicine needs to be included in the development. In the study we aimed to gain information on a structured approach to include CAM in academic health centers. We conducted a semistructured interview study with leading experts of integrative medicine to analyze strategies of existing academic institutions of integrative medicine. The study sample consisted of a purposive sample of ten leaders that have successfully integrated CAM into medical schools in the USA, Great Britain, and Germany and the Director of the National Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine. Analysis was based on content analysis. The prerequisite to foster change in academic medicine was a strong educational and professional background in academic medicine and research methodologies. With such a skill set, the interviewees identified a series of strategies to align themselves with colleagues from conventional medicine, such as creating common goals, networking, and establishing well-functioning research teams. In addition, there must be a vision of what should be needed to be at the center of all efforts in order to implement successful change. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3475364/ /pubmed/23093984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/652546 Text en Copyright © 2012 C. M. Witt and C. Holmberg. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Witt, Claudia M. Holmberg, Christine Changing Academic Medicine: Strategies Used by Academic Leaders of Integrative Medicine—A Qualitative Study |
title | Changing Academic Medicine: Strategies Used by Academic Leaders of Integrative Medicine—A Qualitative Study |
title_full | Changing Academic Medicine: Strategies Used by Academic Leaders of Integrative Medicine—A Qualitative Study |
title_fullStr | Changing Academic Medicine: Strategies Used by Academic Leaders of Integrative Medicine—A Qualitative Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Changing Academic Medicine: Strategies Used by Academic Leaders of Integrative Medicine—A Qualitative Study |
title_short | Changing Academic Medicine: Strategies Used by Academic Leaders of Integrative Medicine—A Qualitative Study |
title_sort | changing academic medicine: strategies used by academic leaders of integrative medicine—a qualitative study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475364/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23093984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/652546 |
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