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Item Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Medical Students and Residents: A Web-Based Course for Self-Instruction(2003) Brokaw, James J.; McConnell, Elizabeth J.; Raess, Beat U.Because physicians are increasingly seeing patients who use CAM therapies, they need to be aware of the potential harm some of these therapies pose. The objective of this project was to develop brief, self-contained lessons that teach the fundamental concepts of CAM and the use of herbal medicines. Each PowerPoint® lesson presents basic information about major aspects of CAM, which can usually be completed in less than 30 minutes. The course will be made available via ANGEL, an internet-based course presentation and management system. To assess understanding of the material, students have the option of taking a brief online quiz at the conclusion of each lesson. The first six lessons comprise a general overview of CAM that exposes the student to a broad variety of “popular” CAM topics: Introduction, Alternative Medical Systems, Mind-Body Interventions, Manipulative Therapies, Energy Therapies and Biologically-Based Therapies. The last four lessons focus on herbal remedies, their uses, actions, and precautions: Pharmacological and Clinical Aspects of Botanicals, Botanical and Herbal Medicines, Herbal Medicines and Drug Interactions, and Patient Education and Advising. This course simply presents information and neither promotes nor condemns the use of CAM. The intent is to expose physicians-in-training to CAM information in a self-paced, time-efficient manner that will enable them to practice safe and effective medicine in a population that typically uses one or more forms of CAM.Item Massage perceptions and attitudes of undergraduate pre-professional health sciences students: a cross-sectional survey in one U.S. university(BMC, 2020-07-08) Munk, Niki; Church, Abby; Nemati, Donya; Zabel, Samantha; Comer, Amber R.; Health Sciences, School of Health and Rehabilitation SciencesBackground Attitudes and beliefs about massage therapy have been explored among health professionals and health profession students, but not for undergraduate preprofessional health sciences students. Methods This cross-sectional survey sought to determine pre-professional health students’ attitudes and perceptions toward massage therapy and determine the extent demographic variables such as age, gender, race, along with lifetime massage experience are associated with neutral/negative perceptions. Results N = 129 undergraduate students completed the Attitudes Toward Massage scale and 7 supplemental items pertaining to sexuality and therapist gender preference along with questions regarding lifetime massage utilization. Prevalence of massage therapy utilization was 35.6% (lifetime) and 18.6% (last 12-months). Overall, positive attitudes towards massage therapy was observed with participants reporting massage experience expressing more positive massage attitudes (lifetime; p = 0.0081, the past 12 months; p = 0.0311). Participants with no massage experience were more likely to report neutral/negative attitudes toward massage (p = 0.04). Men were more likely to prefer their massage therapist to be of the opposite sex (38.9%) compared to women (2.1%) (p = < 0.0001). Men were less confident than women in their concern of becoming sexually aroused during massage (p = 0.0001) and in the belief that massage is sexually arousing (p = 0.048). Both genders expressed comfort with female and/or male massage therapists, but if given a choice, both prefer a female massage therapist. Conclusions Undergraduate pre-professional health sciences students have generally positive attitudes towards massage therapy however more research is needed regarding implicit gender bias and/or preferences. This work should inform future research designs examining the impact of attitudes and beliefs on patient referrals to massage therapy.