EDUCATION RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS
Please note: All posters will be displayed in
Salons 10-12.
THURSDAY, 10:15-11:00 AM
Frenkel M, Sierpina V.
Evaluating the effect of complementary medicine curricular
change in a medical school environment.
University of Texas Medical Branch mafrenke@utmb.edu
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) received
a grant from the NIH to to create educational enhancements in Complementary
and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in our medical, nursing and allied health
schools from 2001-2005. The process of developing curricular change
involved multiple approaches including lectures, workshops, a journal
club, a website, web-cases, and easily acceccible and reliable web-based
resources. Other learning activities included a four week elective rotation,
an amubulatory community selective, and the weaving of CAM issues into
multiple existing courses in the medical , nursing and allied health
schools. . In this presentation we describe the results of qualitative
research done at the completion of this educational initiative. During
this assessment , we evaluated the educational and cultural changes
resulting from this curricular initiative on the UTMB academic environment.
Interviews were analyzed by independent qualitative assessment. The
interviewees were leaders in medical education in UTMB such as dean
of medical education, course directors, other leading faculty, as well
as a graduated UTMB students in residency who had been students during
the implementation of the CAM initiative. Emerging from these in-depth
interviews were the impacts of this project summarized as "lessons learned"
and other important themes which we will discuss.
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