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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

CAM infiltrates the mandatory medical school curriculum

I don’t know about you, but I was getting a little tired of writing so often about the same topic last week, namely the insinuation of unscientific and unproven “alternative medicine” into the medical school curriculum and its promotion by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA). I had planned on giving the topic a rest […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

Medical schools going the wrong way

Everyone who reads this blog regularly knows my dismay at the infiltration of the curriculum of American medical schools with increasing amounts of non-evidence-based woo. It’s even gotten to the point where one medical school (Georgetown University) has is integrating alternative medicine into the mandatory curriculum during all four years, even though these modalities are […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Critical thinking and the scientific method in medical education

It’s things like this over at Over My Med Body! that show our friend Graham really knows how to make a humble guy like Orac feel the love: Big name bloggers like Orac and Dr. RW and KevinMD are all up in arms about how “medical schools are going the wrong way” and asking “Does […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Gotta have more woo in my medical school!

Another one has fallen. Yes, another prestigious medical school has given in. First I lamented the decline in basic science education in medical schools. Then, I lamented even more the infiltration of woo into the curricula of far too many medical schools, spurred on by patient demand, a desire for a nice, high profit cash-on-the-barrelhead […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Woo infiltrates the U.K. undergraduate curriculum…

I’ve lamented time and time again how woo has been infiltrating American medical schools, even going so far as to find its way into being totally integrated into mandatory curriculum from the very first term of the first year of medical school at Georgetown. I realize I’m a bit late on this one, but sadly […]

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