Educational Development for Complementary & Alternative Medicine (EDCAM)

In 2002, the AMSA Foundation received a five-year grant from the NIH National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) to develop, promote and disseminate Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) education curricula and programs at allopathic and osteopathic medical institutions. Grant Summary

The goals of AMSA's EDCAM project were to:

• Improve medical student proficiency in CAM theory, methods, and practice;
• Enhance medical student education of preventive health, holistic care, and self-care through clinical examples using integrative medicine; and
• Improve cultural competence and comfort of future physicians increasingly exposed to a diversity of world populations and healing methods.

• CAM and Medical Education Report
• EDCAM Curriculum Resources
• Other NIH CAM Schools and Programs
• Online CME Courses from University of Arizona's Program in Integrative Medicine
• University of Minnesota's Center for Spirituality and Healing's online modules (free demos)
• North Carolina Consortium on Natural Medicines' herb monographs and information sheets

• CAM Leadership Training Program
• Healing the Healer: Developing Your Own Health Plan
• ICAM (Integrative, Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Resource Center for Students
• AMSA Medical School CAM Directory
• Medical Student Jeopardy (3.5MB) | Instructions
• Clinically-Oriented Training Opportunities offered by the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine