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UCLA Center for East - West Medicine
Integrative East-West Medicine

June 23 - August 1, 2008

East-West Medicine Overview

This summer, the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine is offering a six-week introductory course designed to familiarize students with integrative health care and forms of complementary and alternative medicine, particularly traditional Chinese medicine. This course, Introduction to Integrative East-West Medicine, is modeled after the course for medical students at UCLA and is open to upper-division undergraduate and graduate students. It will expose students to research in public health and policy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, mind-body therapies, and mainstream health care. Students will learn about the theoretical underpinnings of different forms of medicine, the integrative model of health care as practiced at the Center, and how to apply concepts of East-West medicine to their own well-being. Lectures, presentations, and discussions will be supplemented with demonstrations and visits to local clinics.

The Center for East-West Medicine was founded in 1993 as part of the top-ranking UCLA Medical Center to integrate the best of both modern Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine to provide healthcare that is safe, effective and affordable. The Center's education, training, and research programs aim at developing innovative healthcare solutions while preserving the heritage of a healing tradition deeply rooted in the Chinese culture.

This program was developed in partnership with the UCLA Confucius Institute.