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Complementary & Alternative Medicine Short-Term Research Rotation (CAMSTRR)

The Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine (TCOM)'s CAMSTRR is a newly-founded elective research rotation open to third and fourth year medical students. The application process begins during medical school Year Two. CAMSTRR is a joint initiative of the University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) and TCOM and is funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine branch of the National Institute of Health (NIH).

The specific goals of CAMSTRR are to provide an intensive eight-week elective that includes didactics and a mentored and hypothesis-driven research experience. Ultimately, we hope to encourage medical students to enter the complementary and alternative medical research field through this opportunity.

CAMSTRR capitalizes on the successes of a group of experienced faculty research mentors with diverse backgrounds in CAM disciplines, which include manipulative and body-based practices, biologically-based practices, and mind-body medicine.  In addition, faculty subspecialties are many and various, including but not limited to family medicine and community care, health disparities, osteopathic medicine, public health, and biomedical sciences.

We expect that the combination of a strong team of well-trained mentor-scientists with the recruitment of bright and motivated applicants along with a coordinated curriculum and quantifiable outcomes measurements will result in the development of new physician-scientists interested in entering the CAM research career pipeline.

Click here to read an article about the CAMSTRR Program.

ADMISSIONS                               CAM                            CURRICULUM                                FACULTY

Contact Information:

Peggy Smith-Barbaro, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Office of Strategic & Translational Research Initiatives
UNTHSC
817-735-0434
Peggy.Smith-Barbaro@unthsc.edu