Mind–Body Medicine Training

The Connection Between Spontaneous Remission of Cancer and MindBody Medicine

Perhaps the most powerful demonstration of the natural healing power of the mind and body is the “spontaneous” disappearance of a normally fatal disease such as metastatic cancer. This stunning event has been recorded by medical doctors repeatedly in the annals of medicine. Without “adequate” treatment, and sometimes no treatment at all, cancer and other diseases simply go away. While the patie...

William Poteat’s Anthropology: “Mindbody in the World”

The Divided the Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders

Training for internal medicine.

I read with amusement the proposal to increase by one year the training for internal medicine specialists. Does everybody today want to be known as having a “special skill”? I submit that if residents who complete four years of training in internal medicine find themselves lacking skills, it is the training that is deficient, not the time spent training. Four years is a substantial amount of ti...

Training for occupational medicine.

The training of occupational physicians has recently undergone profound changes, is still changing, and in the future we may see some of the developments envisaged here. All four of the phases of training are changing: undergraduate, general professional training (basic specialist training), higher specialist training and, finally, continuing education which is maintained throughout professiona...