Health Professionals
We offer accredited, continuing education classes that combine didactic presentations and experiential learning. Topics include:
- Self Care and Stress Management for Health Professionals
- Mind Body Medicine- Behavioral Approaches to Prevention and Treatment
- Spirituality in Health Care- Professional Applications and Personal Implications
- A Practical Overview of Integrative Medicine for Health Professionals
- Human Health and the Global Environment — A Medical, Public Health and Moral Imperative
Our programs help you:
- Improve job satisfaction
- Increase personal health and happiness
- Explore and nurture the meaning and values of your work
- Reconnect with the values that led you into a health professions career
- Prevent and treat burnout
- Heal compassion fatigue
- Replace self-neglect with self care
- Manage stress and its impact on personal and professional life
- Learn self care approaches to manage your own symptoms of disease, disability and substance abuse
- Enhance your interpersonal relationships
- Develop skills to use yourself and teach your patients to use day-to-day at work and home
- Explore ways to bring spirituality into your personal and professional life
- Recognize the connections between human biological rhythms and the cycles of nature
- Live more in harmony with the natural world
For Physicians
For Nurses
For Medical Students
Resources
Additional online resources for Mind Body Medicine and Integrative Medicine
- Center for Mind Body Medicine
- cmbm.org
- Professional trainings in the personal and professional application of evidence based mind body medicine as well as research in traumatized populations
- Institute of Medicine
- IOM recently convened a Summit on Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public
- iom.edu/CMS/28312/52555.aspx
- IOM has also produced reports on recommended changes in resident physician lifestyles entitled Resident Duty Hours- Enhancing Sleep, Supervision and Safety
- iom.edu/CMS/3809/48553/60449.aspx
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at NIH
- NCCAM has created an extensive mind body medicine fact sheet with references
- nccam.nih.gov/health/whatiscam/mind-body/mindbody.htm
- Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine
- Working Groups on Clinical Care, Education and Research and has proposed a set of Core Competencies in Integrative Medicine for Medical School Curricula
- Harvard Medical School’s Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine
- mbmi.org/home
- Clinical programs for patients and professional training programs for health professionals
- U of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society
- umassmed.edu/content.aspx?id=41252
- Extensively researched Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, offers professional trainings and medical student electives
- 2008 PBS Documentary The New Medicine
- thenewmedicine.org
- An excellent overview of Mind Body Medicine and Integrative Medicine as practiced and researched at major US medical schools