Another Reason to Teach Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Abstract

Aims: To ascertain whether studying Complementary and Alternative Medicine, in any capacity, can influence attitudes to patients, over and above simply learning the subject in question. Study Design: Pilot study using Questionnaires before and after two different courses of study.

A Survey of Medical Students’ Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Urmia, Iran

“…This should be an extra incentive for instructors to educate their learners on complementary and alternative medicine subjects. 8 In developing countries, complementary and alternative medicine can be beneficially used to reduce the load on overburdened health systems. This would require incorporation of complementary and alternative medicine teaching in medical curricula; however, studies assessing the perceptions of medical students toward complementary and alternative medicine come primarily from the European countries and the United States, and data from the developing countries are scarce, as are data from the Middle East region.…”

“…This should be an extra incentive for instructors to educate their learners on complementary and alternative medicine subjects. 8…”