Complementary therapies: their role and place within undergraduate medical education

Abstract: Interest in complementary therapies is growing rapidly and the number of people using them is rising. This paper outlines what is currently being taught within undergraduate medical curricula and suggests that, if and when complementary therapies gain a wider inclusion and accepted place, this should embrace the holistic philosophies on which many are founded. Without this, a full sense of both the therapy and its usefulness cannot be achieved. It also outlines some of the changes currently taking place within medical education which may allow for this area to be explored further.

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