Distinguishing Between Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Integrative Medicine Delivery: The United Kingdom Joins World Leaders in Professional Integrative Medicine Education

Abstract

“Sixteen years as a general practitioner [GP] showed me that the prevailing biomedical reductionist model fails to address the complexity of human experience and psychosomatic illness that daily practice brings up, and for which I was not trained. Even at the purely physical level, there are huge gaps in conventional training with virtually no training in musculoskeletal medicine (a huge component of GP life) or nutritional medicine, without stepping outside conventional training to embrace, for example, nutritional therapy, acupuncture, or osteopathy courses”