Open AccessCollecting Information About a CAM Practitioner’s Practice: A Preliminary Report of a Self-Interview Methodology
Author(s) -
William Elder,
Hunter Purdy,
Andrew Bentley
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
complementary health practice review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1552-3845
pISSN - 1533-2101
DOI - 10.1177/1533210105280369
Subject(s) - precept , medical education , multidisciplinary approach , alternative medicine , curriculum , medicine , practitioner research , advice (programming) , engineering ethics , psychology , pedagogy , sociology , engineering , computer science , political science , social science , pathology , law , programming language
To prepare allopathic providers to advise patients about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies, the University of Kentucky CAM curriculum integration project has identified and trained CAM practitioners to coteach, precept, and demonstrate their respective practices. This project is interested in integrating CAM practitioners as teachers into this university and has formed a multidisciplinary committee for advice. The committee has recognized the importance of increased understanding of CAM practices to enhance communication within itself and to decide to which CAM practices students should receive exposure. This article reports our attempt to create a CAM practice description, based on questions general to CAM practice and specific to a particular approach. Because there is limited existing systematic research on CAM practice characteristics, these questions may interest researchers conducting qualitative studies, especially those seeking an example of questions to ask CAM practitioners. We also believe this practice description will be of general interest.