Revista de informática médica y de salud

Integrative medicine & integrated medical education

Abstract

Ahmed Makki

In practice there's confusion between integrative medication and integrated medical education, to eliminate this unintentional confusion, we've got to outline every of them clearly.By integrative medication we tend to mean combination between the western medication and also the complementary practice of medicine, that primarily based on five domains: Biologically based approaches, artful therapies, mind-body interventions, practice of medicine and energy medical care, whereas integrated medical education may be a planned knowledge base unit of medical instructional expertise.

The set of medical courses and their contents that students learn underneath steerage of the university to attain the graduate competencies is thought as medical course of study that has many faces as specific, implicit, up to extra-curricular set. The medical course of study structure could take the shape of separate, Linear, pointed or Spiral structure. Harden in 1984 had prompt that integration in concert of the keys for assessing the degree of innovation in medical curricula through the SPICES strategy, which incorporates student cantered learning, downside based-learning, integration and community based mostly with general approach. In 2000, he projected harden ladder that explains the eleven blocks that result in the combination in medical courses starting from isolation up to multi, inter, transdisciplinary approaches.

This entire study illustrates the steps of initiating integrated medical course in detail, with illustration of the benefits and drawbacks of integration in medical education. The study additionally highlights the phases of analysis and the way to enhance the prevailing integrated course via up content, analysis strategies yet because the outcome of medical education.