Complimentary and Alternative Medicine

Complimentary and Alternative Medicine

• Identify complementary and alternative medicine practices, including those that are biologic, manipulative, mind-body, and energy based
• Identify practitioners of these modalities, including their training and license requirements
• Understand the efficacy and dangers of such treatments
• Understand the interaction of these modalties with standard medical treatments
• Understand why patients use complementary and alternative therapies and be able to advise them on how to integrate these therapies safely into their total treatment regimen

Volume III, Number 5, October 2004

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