The Ohio State University (OSU) Family Medicine Fellowship in Integrative Medicine (IM) is a one-year program designed to train physicians in evidence-based therapies and associated philosophies collectively known as IM. Our program combines education, clinical mentorship, and hands-on training & practice with faculty who use evidence-based IM in our clinic and at our world-renowned academic medical center. The goal of the program is to provide physicians with a wide range of knowledge and skills needed to be successful practitioners in the field of IM as well as future leaders in health care organizations, academic medical centers, government, and industry.
OSU IM will facilitate this training process through the guidance of the American Board of Integrative Medicine (ABoIM) and with specific training goals, learning objectives, and activities facilitated by our expert faculty across a one-year calendar. This fellowship has been approved by the OSU Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine (COM) Graduate Medical Education Office (GME).
Curriculum Goals and Activities
The overarching goal of this fellowship is to increase the knowledge, skills, and use of IM therapies (evidence-based complementary + alternative/integrative (CAM)) by the physician fellow for their patients.
In general, after an initial period of orientation, the fellow will spend 2 days/week with respective faculty during the faculty clinic schedule to obtain and enhance a first-hand experience and competency for IM therapies. The Fellow will conduct their own clinic practice with patients during their IM clinic for an additional 2 days/week. One day weekly, training will be associated with didactic and many other learning activities such as graduate seminars, self-study time, online modules, hospital rounds, acupuncture or culinary medicine experiences, etc. The training calendar specifies intentional sequences for rotations with each faculty member in order to enhance an understanding of this extensive field of IM.
Competencies and Learning Objectives and Opportunities
Competencies and learning objectives listed below are following published recommendations of Locke et al. Recommended IM Competencies for Family Medicine Residents. Explore 2013;9:308-313. The sources of the learning activities for each learning objective are mapped back to the ABoIM recommendations and approved OSU-GME documentation.
- Competency: Patient Care: To provide compassionate, appropriate, and effective care for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.
- Competency: Medical Knowledge: To provide established and evolving biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, social-behavioral science, application to patient care.
- Competency: Interpersonal and Communication Skills: To provide effective exchange of information and collaboration with patients, families, and health professionals.
- Competency: Practice-Based Learning and Improvement: To investigate/evaluate care of patients, to appraise and assimilate scientific evidence, and to continuously improve patient care based on constant self-evaluation and lifelong learning.
- Competency: Professionalism: To have a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities and an adherence to ethical principles.
- Competency: Systems-Based Practice: To have an awareness of, and responsiveness to, larger context and system and ability to call effectively on resources to provide optimal healthcare.
Learning objectives and additional details are listed in the official document for the Fellowship.
Clinical Practice
This contains the ‘Clinical Application of Skills’ which includes the time the Fellow will spend observing and learning from all Faculty practitioners at OSU IM across the 52 weeks. Other than the first two weeks of orientation, this will occur in Faculty Clinics for three ½ days per week (driven by the monthly curriculum schedule) and has an added ½ day/week of Tandem clinic with Dr. Anton Borja.
Application Process
2018-19 applications are accepted between June 2018 and February 2019 with decision by late February 2019.
Please contact Diane Habash, PhD, MS, RDN, or call 614.247.4595 for more details.