Course Title: Integrative Medicine
Credits: 1 hour of CME; 1.2 nursing contact hours (CEU)
Cost: Free

Lecturer: Ralph Snyderman, M.D., Emeritus Chancellor for Health Affairs at Duke University; James B. Duke Professor of Medicine in the Duke University School of Medicine

Learning Objectives:

• To understand the concept of prospective care and personalized medicine, incorporating personalized health planning and how this differs from the current disease-oriented approach
• To understand the types of new tools becoming available to facilitate the practice of prospective and personalized care. These include refined health risk assessment tools incorporating the latest scientific advances regarding disease predictors
• To understand the compelling need for greater personal responsibility for maintaining ones health and the tools available to do so
• To understand the potential for an increased and more dominant role for rational integrative medicine approaches in prospective care

This lecture is part of the CAM Online Education Series. The series contains 8 chapters. Each lecture includes:

• A video lecture by one author, including the transcript
• A question and answer transcript
• An optional online test
• Additional resource links
• A certificate of completion

Although developed for health care professionals to receive continuing education, members of the public are invited to view the series and learn more about various aspects of CAM and CAM research.