Barriers, strategies, and lessons learned from complementary and alternative medicine curricular initiatives

Academic Medicine

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 946-950

  Sierpina, Victor S ^a,f   Schneeweiss, Ronald ^b   Frenkel, Moshe A ^c   Bulik, Robert ^d   Maypole, Jack ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^e BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FACULTY PRACTICE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NURSING EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 34748925052     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31814a5092     Document Type: Review

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