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Our goal is to expose students to relevant patient interactions earlier, including teaching a more integrative approach to healthcare. Principles of integrative medicine are beginning to be interwoven into existing courses and electives and numerous integrative medicine-focused courses have been created in the UC medical sciences program.
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The Mind-Body Medicine Elective provides students with self-care and reflection skills combined with group support to adaptively deal with stressors, leading to overall improved well-being and empathy, and ultimately healthier, balanced professionals. This course will focus on the evidence base and indication for use of mind‐body techniques in both a personal and professional/clinical setting.
The Planetary Health and Medicine course will be a 4-week part-time elective. The first 3 weeks will be completed online, and students will be tasked with a reading list, prerecorded lectures, and other online curricula to understand the impacts of the climate crisis through various lenses. They will be looking at climate change and how it impacts policy, health equity, and social justice and engage in discussion on these topics. At the end of this course, students will have a better understanding of the impacts of climate crisis on the individual health of their patients, the populations they care for, and the community in which they live.
The last week will be devoted to the development and submission of a proposal on climate crisis/sustainability, focused on improvement of practices within our hospital system, medical school, and the surrounding community. Students will address a topic from among the following categories: medical waste, food sustainability, clean air, clean water, or energy utilization. They will have the opportunity to engage community leaders, advocates, educators, and policymakers on how to implement solutions outlined in their submission. This climate and health proposal will contribute towards future policies and one that can be acted upon to improve the health and wellbeing of the patients at UC Health or the larger Cincinnati community.
The course will be offered in October and November, and then again in March and April with a maximum of 6 students in each block.
Course Director: Chad Coe, MD
MEDS 6087 Fundamentals of Integrative Health 3 credit hours (Drs. John Sacco/Lauri Nandyal) Fall 25/50% online, flipped classroom model and offered on Mondays from 4-5:50p (in person) and Spring 100% asynchronous online. This course provides an overview of the basic principles and history of integrative health and medicine. This includes an emphasis on a critical review of the scientific evidence-based for integrative medicine approaches as they relate to prevention, treatment of chronic disease, and overall wellness. Students experience a variety of integrative health modalities and a focus on healthy lifestyle as models for disease prevention, treatment of illness, and overall health and wellness promotion. GRADUATE STUDENTS WILL ALSO:
MEDS 6088 Science and Practice of Mind Body Medicine 3 credit hours (Drs. Sian Cotton/Barbara Walker) Fall 100% asynchronous online and Spring 25/50% hybrid online, flipped classroom model offered on Tuesdays from 4-6p (in person). In this course students will experientially explore commonly used mind‐body modalities including mindfulness, guided imagery, breathwork, yoga, etc., which enhance stress management and promote overall wellness. This course provides an evidence‐base and indication for use of mind‐body techniques in a personal and professional/clinical setting. GRADUATE STUDENTS WILL ALSO:
MEDS 7050 Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Compassionate Care 3 credit hours (Dr. Meera Murthi) New Fall 2021, 25/50% online hybrid, flipped classroom model and offered on Wednesdays from 3-5p (in person, via Zoom). This course will combine the 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course with the 8-week Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) course, for a full 16-week course. You will be using meditation, yoga and other proven mind/body modalities to cultivate awareness and reduce stress. MBSR is a formal eight-week program with a daylong intensive that was created by Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979. This course is adapted to fit in with the standard college curriculum. The primary intention of the MBSR curriculum is to create a structured pathway to relieve suffering and increase wellbeing for people facing a host of challenges arising from a wide range of medical and psychological conditions and the demands and stressors inherent in the everyday lives of human beings. GRADUATE STUDENTS WILL ALSO:
MEDS 2087
This interactive course provides an overview of the basic principles and history of integrative medicine and health while empowering students to learn tools for improving patient outcomes and their own self-care. This includes an emphasis on a critical review of the scientific evidence base for integrative medicine approaches as they relate to prevention, treatment of chronic disease, and overall wellness as well as listening coaching from your instructor to provide an interactive learning environment. Students experience a variety of integrative health modalities and a focus on a healthy lifestyle as models for disease prevention, treatment of illness, and overall health and wellness promotion to improve patient outcomes and their own self-care.
MEDS 2088
MEDS 2089
MEDS 2092 - Introduction to Nature Based Therapies and Ecopsychology – 3 credit hours – (Dr. Barbara Walker) This course will be taught 100% Asynchronous online and will have four field trips throughout the semester TBD.
This course will introduce scientifically-validated strategies around the basic theories and approaches of Nature-Based Therapeutics including restorative environments, therapeutic horticulture, animal-assisted interactions, therapeutic landscapes, forest bathing, green care farming, facilitated green exercise, wilderness therapy and ecopsychology. Three optional in-person experiential field trips. Dates TBD.
MEDS 3070
MEDS 4038
Digestive disorders are a primary reason many Americans seek health care. There is ample evidence that stress, the environment, and diet play leading roles in many of these conditions. Join us to explore the toll that the Western diet and lifestyles have on gut health and health in general, the role of Social Determinants of Health and nutrition-driven biology, and the broad influence the gut has on other biologic systems. Share the role of developing content to educate your classmates via weekly patient-focused case-based learning, along with enjoying the in-class application of Integrative models for more effective prevention and treatment of digestive diseases. This interactive course helps students learn how to apply these principles in a clinical setting to better educate their patients and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
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Courses are open to students and interested community members or practicing healthcare providers. Learn more about enrolling as a non-matriculated student!
Email Kelly Lyle, Education Program Director for the Osher Center for Integrative Health at UC at woosleka@ucmail.uc.edu
Medical Sciences Building Suite 4358231 Albert Sabin WayPO Box 670582 Cincinnati, OH 45267-0582
Mail Location: 0582Phone: 513-558-2310Email: osher.integtrative@uc.edu