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The Oregon Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine career development program: innovation in research training for complementary and alternative medicine.

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BACKGROUND: The burgeoning use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) highlights the need for high-quality research to discriminate between those approaches based on positive anecdotes or polished marketing and those that are consistently ... (Full abstract text below)

Published 2003 in Journal: Teach Learn Med (Language : eng)

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1. Teach Learn Med. 2003 ;15(1):45-51

The Oregon Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine career development program: innovation in research training for complementary and alternative medicine.

Shaw KB, Mist S, Dixon MW, Goldby M, Weih J, Bauer VK, Ritenbaugh C

Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research Portland, Oregon, USA. karens@bastyr.edu

BACKGROUND: The burgeoning use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) highlights the need for high-quality research to discriminate between those approaches based on positive anecdotes or polished marketing and those that are consistently effective and safe. DESCRIPTION: To help meet this need, the Oregon Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine has developed an innovative program to train researchers. The training program includes an individual mentoring and training plan, group mentoring, a clinical research class, proposal development, completion of an actual study, and journal club participation. EVALUATION: After 2 years the fellows have submitted 18 grants, presented 4 posters, submitted 7 articles, developed 2 treatment protocols, and earned 1 master of public health degree and 1 graduate certificate. CONCLUSIONS: This program helps experienced CAM practitioners quickly adopt a research perspective. We encourage other career development programs to extend training in research methods to individuals possessing a profound understanding of CAM.

PMID : 12632708 [PubMed - Indexed for MEDLINE]

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First Name	LastName	Initials
Karen Ball	Shaw	KB
Scott	Mist	S
Marian Wolfe	Dixon	MW
Mark	Goldby	M
Jeffrey	Weih	J
Vance K	Bauer	VK
Cheryl	Ritenbaugh	C

Affiliation: Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research Portland, Oregon, USA. karens@bastyr.edu

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