H is for holistic:- Fellows and faculty treat patients holistically, considering their physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being in the context of environment as essential to their healing process.
- Fellows and faculty are expected to live holistically, knowing that their own physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being is essential to their practice of medicine.
- Fellows will design their own “self-wellness plan” as part of their experience.
I is for Integrative:- Fellows choose to become proficient in complementary medical modalities of their choice.
- Regardless of which modalities they learn it is expected they will be able to integrate these modalities into an allopathic practice for the remainder of their career.
- Fellows and faculty will review evidence surrounding all forms of alternative medicines using innovative data bases created in cooperation with EBSCO.
- It is not possible to learn all of alternative medicine in a year, but we hope to supply the methods and tools needed to know the latest research on alternative medicine topics.
P is for Pluralistic:- Cultural competence demands that patients are understood in the context of the background.
- Pluralistic medical competence requires that non-allopathic systems of healing are understood in the context of their own paradigm, rather than how well they are aligned with the allopathic paradigm.
- Viewed in this way, non-allopathic systems are learned more authentically, and a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of allopathic medicine is achieved.
- Experience and common sense are valued in the context of a general lack of statistical evidence in many areas of alternative medicine.
- Just because something has not been studied does not mean it is not worth doing.
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