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Holistic Being
| Primary Contact: | Armando Frascarelli Junior, MD |
We are a Brazilian group of physicians and therapists working with natural methods of healing
Ben Gurion University, Israel - Medical School for International Health - Student's for Integrative Medicine (SIM)
| Primary Contact: | Jon Mendelsohn, Chairperson |
Focus group to bring Integrative Medicine topics to student body through presentations, guest speakers, field trips, and monthly focuses on various healing traditions and alternative modalities
Albany Medical College
Integrative Medicine Group
| Primary Contact: | Jennifer Tsoi, student/facilitator |
Lectures, workshops, and conferences on modalities of medicine that are not taught in Western allopathic medicine.
Albert Einstein COM
Students for Integrative Medicine (SIM)
In past years our group has had speakers come to campus to talk about meditation, homeopathy, etc. SIM also held a massage workshop. This year, we hope to bring more speakers to campus, work on increasing CAM resources in the library, and promote interest in integrative medicine among students and administration.
Arizona COM of Midwestern Univ*
Integrative Medicine Club
| Primary Contact: | Casey Onik, Community Outreach Coordinator |
| Secondary Contact: | Dustin Sulak, President |
Full Range of Reiki Attunements, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Philosophy Work Groups, Lectures, Parties, Retreat Planning, Fellowship in the Eye of the Maelstrom.
Boston Univ SOM
Students for Integrative Medicine
| Primary Contact: | Francisco Giral Irby, BUSM AMSA Chapter Treasurer / Hum-Med Officer at Large |
Workshops, student wellness conferences, monthly pot-luck suppers w/ interest groups from Tufts and Harvard, five weekend (Saturdays) Spring Wellness Intensive that includes intro to yoga, t'ai chi, MD/faculty involved in CAM education and research, intro to cooking and eating healthily, etc.
Florida State Univ COM
C.H.A.O.S.
| Primary Contact: | Marc Bernstein, MS-II |
| Secondary Contact: | Paola Dees, Secretary |
| Faculty Contact: | Ken Brummel-Smith, Secretary |
CHAOS stand for: Connecting Healthcare: Alternative, Osteopathic, and Spiritual healers. We bring in speakers from different healthcare professions to inform students about other modalities of care that our patients will be experiencing.
Jefferson Medical College
Ars Medica
Bi-Monthly Lectures and Workshops
Louisiana State Univ SOM @ New Orleans
Integrative Medicine Interest Group (IMIG)
| Primary Contact: | Cynthia Tan, IMIG officer |
Monthly lunch lectures on CAM with workshops, Wellness Day practitioner fair, Work with Health Promotion elective.
Mayo Medical School
CAM interest group
Mount Sinai SOM
Organization of Holistic Medicine (OHM)
| Primary Contact: | Shonali Saha, President |
| Secondary Contact: | Rachel Outterson, Secretary/Treasurer |
Lecture series on different modes of healing e.g acupuncture, spiritual healing, mind body medicine as well as hands on training e.g. Reiki levels I and II
Mount Sinai SOM
Organization for Holistic Medicine
| Primary Contact: | Vimal Ramjee, Co-leader |
| Secondary Contact: | Danielle Savitsky, Co-leader |
We hold monthly sessions on topics including Reiki therapy, acupuncture, massage therapy, herbal medicine and much more.
Northwestern Univ Feinberg SOM
Integrative, Complementary, and Alternative Medicien Group (ICAM)
| Primary Contact: | Eric Ferkel, Co-Leader |
| Secondary Contact: | Raj Dedhia, Co-Leader |
The Integrative, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine (ICAM) group at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine is a student group that is striving to promote the awareness and understanding of complementary and alternative medical practices (i.e., acupuncture, herbs, meditation, naturopathy, etc.) among medical students and physicians. Medical student well-being both physiological, physical, and spiritual is a focus of our group and we work to maintain health and wellness of our community of healers. We believe that a basic understanding of commonly used complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies is essential for health professionals in today's medical landscape. We work in association, on national level with the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Humanistic Medicine Action Committee. In this capacity we attend national conventions, retreats, and work with each other to improve the education of medical students on issues related to wellness, complementary and alternative medical practices, and humanism. We welcome and embrace all new ideas and members.
Philadelphia COM*
American Holistic Medical Association Club
| Primary Contact: | Judy Li, Treasurer/Secretary |
The AHMA club is committed to presenting any alternative medicine topics that interest club members. In the past we have invited people to talk about running a holistic practice, nutrition, acupuncture, muscle energy, and more. We also do morning meditations, yoga, and vegetarian cooking and other activities for a healthy lifestyle. We are hoping to do another CAM conference inviting holistic practitioners again to our school as we did this year, but because Philadelphia is full of medical schools, we are aiming to do a city-wide conference with the help of other schools.
Philadelphia COM*
AHMA (American Holistic Medical Association)
| Primary Contact: | Shannon Alsop, President |
| Secondary Contact: | Kimberly Jones, Treasurer |
AHMA is interested in providing students opportunities to experience holistic & alternative medicine. Some of the things we have presented in club are OMM, nutrition, ayurvedic medicine, yoga, acupuncture, and CAM conference. This year will be focused on bringing more speakers to the club.
Rush Medical College of Rush Univ
CAM Interest Group
| Primary Contact: | Hila Citrin, Humed Chair |
Journal Club, Lunch Speakers once a quarter, visits to holistic clinics, possible shadowing opportunities.
The University of Pittsburgh SOM
Integrative Health Interest Group
| Primary Contact: | Ilana Seidel, MSII |
| Secondary Contact: | Jennifer Lin, MSII |
We are a new recognized Student Group working with the administration to integrae ICAM into our curriculum. We also hold lunch time speakers series for each block (ie. PNI for psychiatry), have evening workshops (ie. Reiki Workshop), organize a Wellness Evening for orientation, hold weekly yoga classes/meditation sessions, organize retreats and promote an overall awareness of self-care and ICAM.
Touro Univ COM*
Integrative Medicine Club
| Primary Contact: | Brieanna Cross, President |
Our mission is three fold: to educate, expose and assist our students in exploring complementary and alternative medicine. First, we provide informative workshops to educate students about modalities in complementary and alternative medicine that their future patients may be using. Second, we aim our seminars at experiential learning so that students can walk away with new skills and information on where to go for further training. Lastly, we provide self-care classes that provide students with methods to cope with the stresses of a medical career.
Tufts Univ SOM
Integrative, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine Interest Group
| Primary Contact: | Jennifer Neuwalder, Co-chair |
Lunch talks with invited speakers, participation in a Massachusetts/Rhode Island-wide annual conference on ICAM
UMDNJ New Jersey Medical School @ Newark
Cross-Cultural & Integrative Medicine Interest Group
The Cross-Cultural and Integrative Medicine Interest Group of UMDNJ-NJMs seeks to educate medical students and provide them with resources on wellness, holistic medicine, complementary and alternative medicine, non-western medical/healthcare practices and customs, and culturally competent patient-centered care. Activities include lecture series, self-care workshops,and massage day.
Univ of Arizona COM
Integrative Medicine Club
| Primary Contact: | Adrienne Stone, President |
Our club is open to undergraduate and graduate students. We meet once a month and bring in guest speakers from the different modalities of Integrative Medicine. We also do other activities such as conferences, volunteering, and fund-raisers.
Univ of Calgary
Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (ICAM) Interest Group
| Secondary Contact: | Allison Salter, ICAM Interest Group Co-Chair |
-Host monthly guest speakers for medical students and faculty -Promote a Shadow-A-Practitioner program for medical students to experience CAM practices firsthand -Organize an annual skills day where medical students are exposed to CAM modalities -Arrange for interested medical students to attend relevant conferences
Univ of California SOM @ Davis
CAMSIG
Recently re-established, CAMSIG helps to organize a yearly elective, Introduction to Integrative Medicine, for 1st and 2nd year medical students at UC Davis. The group also plans to begin inviting guest lecturers to campus on a monthly or bi-monthly basis to lead lunchtime discussions on various issues relating to integrative medicine.
Univ of California SOM @ Irvine
Integrative Medicine Interest Group
| Primary Contact: | Sara Sheriff, Coordinator |
Monthly lunch time speakers
Univ of California SOM @ San Diego
HI-MED: Holistic and Integrative Medicine Interest Group
| Primary Contact: | Heidi Meyer, group coordinator |
| Faculty Contact: | Dr. Jamie Jones, |
A year-long lunch lecture series bring in healers of various credentials who have experience in all healing modalites. Monthly potlucks at a local physician's house focus on topics that effect the health not only of patients, but of physicians and physicians in training, while fostering a safe, open environment that encourage students to delve deeper into themselves to find their own convictions, Achilles' heels, fears, and strengths. The overall goal is to expose students to radically wider ways of thinking about the healing arts, and what is required to be a healer versus a doctor.
Univ of Chicago Pritzker SOM
CAM Interest Group
| Primary Contact: | Marni Hillinger, Coordinator |
Annual CAM Chicago conference, speakers, yoga classes, lunchtime discussions
Univ of Cincinnati COM
CAM interest group
Study latest research Shadow at clinics Separate "quack" practices from scientifically verifiable practices.
Univ of Louisville SOM
Integrative Medicine Interest Group
| Primary Contact: | Andrew Cunningham, President |
Univ of Michigan Medical School
Students for Holistic Health and Healing
| Primary Contact: | Paras Mehta, President |
| Secondary Contact: | Sean Zager, V.P. |
Information workshops, lectures, discussions, conferences, luncheons.
Univ of Pennsylvania SOM
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Interest Group
| Primary Contact: | Christopher Lawinski, Co-Coordinator |
1. Weekly CAM research/journal club in which students and professors present to the group on a modality on their choice, including research into its use whenever possible. 2. Recruitment of CAM practitioners to speak to the medical students and medical community in order raise awareness about CAM and its safety anf effectivess. 3. Planned CAM fair to expose the students and the medical community at the hospital to actual practitioners or different CAM modalities, including the opportunity to try a modality on the spot. 4. More interaction with CAM groups at other schools and with national organizations supporting CAM and CAM education. 5. Organizing a two-week course for 4th year medical students exploring the scientific basis of various CAM modalities and investigating possible explainable/provable methods of healing action.
Univ of South Florida COM
Preventative and Integrative Medicine Intrest Group
| Primary Contact: | Stephan Esser, Chair |
Univ of Texas Medical School @ San Antonio
Humanistic Medicine
| Primary Contact: | Tiffany Milner, Humanistic Medicine Co-chair |
Univ of Virginia SOM
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Interest Group
Evening workshops with CAM practitioners, hope to have shadowing available soon.
Univ of Washington SOM
Organization for Holistic Medicine (OHM)
| Primary Contact: | Michelle Dossett, MD, PhD student |
| Secondary Contact: | Corinne Taraska, medical student |
| Faculty Contact: | David Kiefer, medical student |
Talks & demos on a variety of CAM modalities/topics including acupuncture, herbs, nutrition and cancer therapy.
Univ of Wisconsin Medical School
Integrative Medicine Interest Group
| Primary Contact: | Jimmy Wu, Co-chair |
| Secondary Contact: | Greg Rachu, Co-chair |
| Faculty Contact: | David Rakel, Co-chair |
- relevant noon-time talks with healthy foods - group sponsored classes (Tai Chi, yoga, Qi Gong, meditation) - shadowing program (with CAM practitioners)
University of Kentucky COM
Integrative Medicine Club
Monthly lunchtime speakers
Vanderbilt University SOM
Integrative Health Interest Group
| Primary Contact: | Sara Risner-Adler, Student Chair |
Our interest group began last year (2005) offering monthly journal clubs, weekly yoga and observational-based exposure to many therapies. We are working with the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health that will open this fall with a three-fold programmatic foci in education, research and patient care. Our organizational goals for this year are to continue the lecture and journal club offerings as well as encourage and facilitate innovative curricular change, offer many avenues for students to have experience-based exposures through retreats, field-visits and workshops and promote self-care. The organizations mission is to cultivate an environment for learning, treating others and living as whole people.
Wayne State Univ SOM
HuMed
We are an active HuMed group broken into 3 chairs. CAM, Creative Expression and Self-Care. CAM has brown bag lunches and brings in different practitioners. Creative Expression- we have had a talent show and are planning 2 talent shows this year as well as an art show. Self Care - speakers on balance in medical school, Tai-Chi for an hour in the morning once a week. This year we hope to have meditation once a week as well. We also have brought in speakers, did a candy-gram sale around valentines day and a few other activities which don't fall under the 3 main areas.
