The Integrative Medicine Fellowship  

  The integrative training program will consist of a combination of workshops, lectures, and structured content-oriented instruction offered through the Beth Israel Center for Health and Healing Fellowship in Integrative Medicine.

  These workshops will be offered weekly and will be 120 minutes in length. These workshops will take place at the Center for Health and Healing in Manhattan, on Tuesday afternoons from 1 PM to 3 PM. These workshops provide an in-depth knowledge base for physicians in both the modalities of CAM and the therapeutic applications of these modalities to specific medical problems, and specifically focus on challenges that arise in teaching this content to medical students and residents.

   This curriculum will give participants the knowledge base needed to incorporate CAM into both their clinical practice and their teaching activities. The fellowship program has always offered education on the CAM therapies in the context of the underlying philosophy of an integrative, whole-person approach. The training program proposed here will provide a coherent, systematic overview of the field of CAM from the perspective of the “conventional” health care provider.

  In general the program will emphasize experiential and case-based learning. Small group discussion will be the preferred teaching mode. Lecture time will constitute a relatively small percentage of the didactic curriculum. The curriculum is outlined in attachment.

Integrative Summary Description
Integrative Fellowship Curriculum
Integrative Fellowship Application

Reproductive Health Elective

   The purpose of this experience is twofold: to provide residents with exposure to abortion care and training at Planned Parenthood and to provide them with experience in a practice where abortion care is integrated or mainstreamed into the day to day family medicine practice.

Abortion Training

  The residents on this rotation will receive some early first trimester abortion training and sonography training at Planned Parenthood of New York City, under the supervision of family physicians as part of the Clinician Training Initiative. They will observe the counseling that patients receive in this setting, observe patients with the PA who have come in for medical abortions, as well as for follow up medical abortion visits. These sessions will consist of both didactic and hands on training. The clinical training manual that is used is the UCSF “Early Abortion Training Workbook.” Residents will be involved in abortion care at Planned Parenthood primarily as trainees in the procedure room learning manual vacuum aspiration and electric suction aspiration up to 12 weeks and sonography for first trimester pregnancies.

Abortion Care Mainstreamed

  The residents will also participate in the Phillips Family Practice women’s procedure session, where they will counsel women on options for unintended pregnancy, provide medical and suction abortions, and do the follow-up visits. They will also provide contraceptive counseling, insert IUD’s and do minor gynecological procedures such as endometrial biopsy, diaphragm and pessary fitting, wart treatments, bartholin cyst drainage, etc.