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intent of the Integrative Care project is to bring
awareness to innovative educational approaches used to
teach complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to
medical and allied health professional students. The
project seeks to integrate CAM knowledge and
interdisciplinary care skills into existing curricula of
the Colleges of Medicine and Health Sciences; to enhance
the development of critical thinking skills for
learners; and to develop CAM practitioners to teach and
precept. |
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This website was created to share project activities and
as a source of general information about CAM. The
University of Kentucky’s project is funded by the
National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine (NCCAM), an NIH Center, through 2007. The
project is in its fifth year of funding, making succeful
progress for continuation of the initial award. |
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What is Integrative Care? |
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Integrative medical care incorporates elements of
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) alongside
conventional (allopathic) methods of diagnosis and
treatment. It is healing-oriented medicine that takes
account of the whole person (body, mind and spirit),
including all aspects of the lifestyle. |
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Evidence-based – supporting informed decision-making
based on the best available evidence on the safety and
effectiveness of all treatment options |
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Whole person care – attending not only to the physical
but also to the psychological, emotional, social,
spiritual and cultural dimensions of each person
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Relationship and patient-centered care – which
recognizes the fundamental importance of the
relationship between the patient and the health care
provider, is deeply respectful of the wishes and
experience of the individual patient, and values the
patient as an active partner in their own care
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Self-care – believing that health care providers should
be teachers, facilitating patients in caring for
themselves in order to both prevent and alleviate
illness. At the same time, providers should themselves
embody a philosophy of self-care and, in being truly
attentive of their own health and well-being, better
serve the needs of others |
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