Integrative Health Education

Residents in the Integrative Health Training in Family Medicine program, as well as residents from Family Medicine and Internal Medicine, have the opportunity to elect a month-long rotation at Ohio State Integrative Health. The rotation is competency based and covers integrative patient care, medical knowledge, interpersonal and communication skills, practice-based learning and professionalism. A clerkship for medical students is also available.

This multi-component Advanced Competency (AC) is designed to develop a comprehensive approach to addressing whole health using complementary and integrative health therapies along with conventional medicine to optimize total health and healing. It will include in-depth learning and use of evidence-based resources for integrative health therapies. 

Students will become advanced learners in the philosophies, fundamentals, and therapies of Integrative Health. They also develop and describe possibilities for an integrative care plan for patients with various diseases/conditions, take time to address, develop, and practice self-care, and extend and explore their learning via projects, research or further in-depth learning. 

This AC will advance the knowledge and experience of the practitioner beyond the associated clinical rotation at Ohio State Integrative Health. The intention of this AC is to develop a mindset that future practitioners will incorporate integrative medicine therapies into lifestyle and treatment for their patients and themselves.

The curriculum is delivered across the 4th year for interested medical students and involves the following: Clinical Observation/skill building (~35 hrs), Self-Care Activities/Learning (~25 hours), Experiential Learning (~6 hours), Didactic Learning (~34 hours) and Scholarly Research/Activity (~70 hours). 

Please contact Dr. Diane Brogan-Habash for more details (Habash.2@osu.edu).

Fourth-year medical students are able to elect a 2 week long intensive clerkship through the Ohio State Integrative Health. This elective includes a combination of shadowing Ohio State integrative practitioners, experiential learning, independent study, and self-reflection. 

For more information contact:

Diane Habash
Diane.Habash@osumc.edu

Ohio State undergraduates can obtain a minor in Integrative Approaches to Health and Wellness. This minor was established by a committee of faculty and fostered in the first 10 years by Maryanna Klatt, PhD. It is housed in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences within the College of Medicine. The minor is designed to study the nature, meaning, possibilities and evidence of using integrative medicines with traditional medicine approaches to more fully enhance health care.

Currently the minor is fostered by Crystal Dunlevy, PhD and Diane Habash, PhD.

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 For more information, contact:

Diane Habash, PhD
Diane.Habash@osumc.edu