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The knowledge, attitudes and usage of complementary and alternative medicine of medical students
Joint Authors
DeSylvia, Dawn
Fung, Cha Chi
Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad
Cooper, Edwin L.
Stuber, Margaret
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2011, Issue 2011 (31 Dec. 2011), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2011-02-14
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The increasing use of CAM by patients has led to an increase in teaching about CAM in medical school in the US.
In preparation for initiation of a new curriculum in Integrative Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA a cross sectional survey was used to assess medical students': (i) familiarity, (ii) opinions, (iii) personal use and (iv) willingness to recommend specific CAM modalities, using a five point Likert scale of an established measure.
A total of 263 first, second and third year medical students at UCLA completed surveys.
Third year students reported less personal use of CAM and less favorable attitudes towards CAM than first year students.
Since this was a cross-sectional rather than longitudinal study this may be a cohort effect.
However, it may reflect the increased curricular emphasis on evidenced-based medicine, and subsequent student dependence on randomized clinical trials to influence and guide practice.
This will need to be addressed in curricular efforts to incorporate Integrative Medicine.
American Psychological Association (APA)
DeSylvia, Dawn& Stuber, Margaret& Fung, Cha Chi& Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad& Cooper, Edwin L.. 2011. The knowledge, attitudes and usage of complementary and alternative medicine of medical students. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-493960
Modern Language Association (MLA)
DeSylvia, Dawn…[et al.]. The knowledge, attitudes and usage of complementary and alternative medicine of medical students. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2011 (2011), pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-493960
American Medical Association (AMA)
DeSylvia, Dawn& Stuber, Margaret& Fung, Cha Chi& Bazargan-Hejazi, Shahrzad& Cooper, Edwin L.. The knowledge, attitudes and usage of complementary and alternative medicine of medical students. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2011. Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-493960
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-493960