UM SOM: Integrative Medicine
Healthcare Professional Development
The Center for Integrative Medicine recognizes the importance of training and supporting health professionals in various stages of their careers in order to develop a cadre of well-trained complementary and integrative medicine practitioners and investigators.
o Healing Pathways: Integrative Training for Health Care Professionals
Healing Pathways: Integrative Training for Health Care Professionals
The Center for Integrative Medicine believes strongly that the combination of advanced technology and ancient wisdom is the greatest path to healing. Drawing from our clinical and research collaborations at the Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland, we have developed an education program to teach nurses and other health professionals integrative skills such as guided imagery, mind-body techniques, acupressure, reiki, and sound healing. In addition to didactic and experiential learning, the course includes several mentored sessions with course faculty at the bedside, so that practitioners can immediately translate what they have learned to their care of patients. More information on Healing Pathways
Fellowships & Mentoring
The Center for Integrative Medicine offers health professionals and students the opportunity to focus their careers on integrative medicine through research and clinical fellowships or through mentorship opportunities with CIM faculty. Over the past several years, clinical fellowships have focused on integrative medicine skills, additional training, or shadowing practitioners. Research fellowships have participated in clinical and pre-clinical research in traditional Chinese medicine and mind/body approaches, as well as in CAM systematic reviews. Center faculty members also provide mentoring for students interested in integrative medicine and for young investigators who have received NIH “K” research training awards. The program has four separate initiatives. These include:
- Junior faculty support;
- Postdoctoral fellowship;
- Graduate student program; and,
- Senior Faculty Fellows program, bringing in visiting senior faculty to work with our team.
In addition, the Bravewell Collaborative for Integrative Medicine, working in partnership with the University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM), has awarded CIM a special educational fellowship award focused on Integrative Medicine More information on the Bravewell Fellowships
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