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Complementary and alternative medicine modalities were taught routinely in US medical schools until the early 1900’s. In 1908, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching initiated a survey study of the existing medical schools in the US. The resulting Flexner Report of 1910 forced a sweeping change in medical education and formed a single model of medical education . That model was based on a philosophy that has largely survived to the present day. The Flexner report recommendations forced the removal of CAM education from all allopathic medical schools in the US. The reintroduction of CAM into medical student education began largely in the 1990's. In 1995, the Alternative Medicine Interest Group of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine surveyed U.S. medical school departments of family medicine to determine the extent to which CAM was being taught in medical schools. The results showed that CAM was taught in 34 % of U.S. medical schools.
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Misra, S. (2014). Education. In: A Guide to Integrative Pediatrics for the Healthcare Professional. SpringerBriefs in Public Health(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06835-0_2
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