This article demonstrates the disadvantages of specialization of modern medicine in nine aspects. Holistic Integrative Medicine will be the direction and the only way for the development of medicine in future. Holistic Integrative Medicine should be advocated and accelerated in both theoretical and practical levels.

Integrative medicine training was incorporated into the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Preventive Medicine residency at the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences Newark Campus as a collaboration between the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and the School of Health Related Professions. Beginning in 2012, an interdisciplinary faculty team organized an Integrative Medicine program in a Preven...

Worldwide, acupuncture is integral to everyday medical practice. In recent decades its practice has gained popularity in the United States. With increasing evidence of its clinical efficacy, acupuncture is now a widely practiced treatment modality in complementary and integrative medicine. According to the 2007 National Health Interview Survey, an estimated 3.1 million US adults and 150,000 chi...

Unstated and unacknowledged bias has a profound impact on the nature and implementation of integrative education models. Integrative education is the process of training conventional biomedical and traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in each tradition such that patient care may be effectively coordinated. A bilateral education model ensures that students in each tradition are cross-taugh...

BACKGROUND The demand for integrative medicine care is increasing rapidly among patient consumers, yet the integrative medicine model is not the norm in clinical practice, nor is this approach a focus in traditional medical schools. Furthermore, patient well-being and satisfaction outcomes within an integrative care model are not common in the literature. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this paper ...

Cochrane for CAM Providers: Evidence for Action Eric Manheimer, MS, is Director of Database and Evaluation at the Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, and administrator of the Cochrane Collaboration Field in Complementary Medicine. Brian Berman, MD, is founder and Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine. H...