Residents

pairingResidents learn about nutrition, mind body medicine, stress management, acupuncture, massage, herbs and dietary supplements, and complementary and alternative medicine patient resources in the Wednesday afternoon seminar series. As part of the Integrative Medicine Curriculum each third year resident will have several experiences to expose them to integrative medicine approaches or therapies. These take place predominantly in the family medicine 3 block.  The faculty members overseeing this part of the curriculum are Dr. Paula Gardiner and Dr. Meena Kumar.  These experiences vary and include shadowing, directly experiencing the therapies themselves, and educational exercises.

CAM Competencies

BU Integrative Medicine Residency Tracker

Web Resources for Residents:

UpToDate
UpToDate provides evidence based information, links, references, and quick facts about easily searchable topics. Includes the Lexi-Natural Products by Lexi-Comp.

Im4us.org 
Toolkit for clinicians and residents working in and teaching in communities with underserved populations.

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health  
This site offers a wealth of information on alternative therapies, supplements, recent research, and training opportunities. It has live video talks.

University of Wisconsin Family Medicine Integrative Medicine Website
An excellent resource for clinician learning modules and patient information handouts.

University of Minnesota, Center for Spirituality and Healing
Online modules of different healing modalities.

Taking Charge of your Health
Also from the  University of Minnesota  Fantastic website for modality and conditions overviews. Colorful and easy to navigate also great techniques for motivational interviewing.

Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine

Homepage for the Center for Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona. The site offers information on educational courses.

Integrative Medicine in Residency Competency-based, Online Curriculum

A 200-hour competency-based, online curriculum in integrative medicine, designed for incorporation into primary care residency education.

Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health
The mission of the Consortium is to advance integrative medicine and health through academic institutions and health systems.

BU Alumni Medical Library 
The BU Alumni Medical Library has gathered an expansive list of resources surrounding complementary therapies
Clinical resources at the point of care

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
This database offers subscribers information on supplements (i.e. ingredients, interactions, safety), comparison of conventional and alternative approach to treatment of illnesses, CME courses, and daily updates. (for a fee) The Consumer Reports Web site also hosts the NMCD monographs.

Natural Medicine 
This site is the result of an international collaboration with the aim to provide clinicians and patients with information about complementary and alternative medicine. The site utilizes peer-reviewed and evidence-based information to delegate a well-defined grading scale for therapeutic interventions (for a fee).

Medline Plus Complementary and Integrative Medicine 
A free resource for information on complementary and alternative medicine. Dietary supplement information is sourced by Natural Standard. Patient information sheets in Spanish.

Clinical resources at the point of care – Dietary Supplements

Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), NIH
The Office of Dietary Supplements reviews and provides free information on dietary supplements.

United States Pharmacopeia Dietary Supplements (USP)
The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) is an official public standards–setting authority for all prescription and over–the–counter medicines and other health care products manufactured or sold in the United States. The site offers quality and safety information database that includes information on commercial supplements to members for a fee.

Consumer Labs

Consumer Labs is the leading provider of independent test results and information to help consumers and healthcare professionals evaluate health, wellness, and nutrition products. The site offers product reviews, recalls and warnings, and price checks to members (for a fee).

Evidence based reviews and information

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

This site offers evidence reports on dietary supplements and complementary and alternative care practices.

CAM on PubMed
CAM on PubMed, a database on the Web developed jointly by NCCAM and the National Library of Medicine, offers citations to (and in most cases, abstracts of) articles in scientifically based, peer- reviewed journals on complementary and alternative medicine. It has links to full text, and allows searchers to limit retrievals by publication type. Look for the Alerts and Advisories, treatment information, resources, links to other organizations (FDA, AHRQ, ODS etc.).

Clinical Trial Database
The Clinical Trial Database provides information on all CAM and dietary supplement clinical trials being conducted by the US government.

Cancer education

Memorial Sloan Kettering
This site provides helpful information about herbs, supplements, and other integrative cancer medicine information.

Nutrition Information

Familydoctor.org
Information about nutrition for adults, children, special diets, and weight management, including resources for patients at the point of care.

Teacher’s Guide to Pediatric Nutrition
The Nutrition SIG of the Ambulatory Pediatric Associations presents this tool for teaching and self-learning.